# vis.API for visualization's legend?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vis-api-for-visualizations-legend/123109
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 8, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vis-api-for-visualizations-legend/123109 "2018-03-08T15:27:14Z")
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### Author: ![michimau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michimau/32/23262_2.png) [@michimau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michimau)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vis-api-for-visualizations-legend/123109/1 "2018-03-08T15:27:14Z")

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Dear all,

is there any method/function to interact with the visualizations legends (the ones you find in pie, linechart etc.., you can filter upon).

best!  
M

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### Author: ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vis-api-for-visualizations-legend/123109/2 "2018-03-08T20:14:25Z")

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Hello, are you trying to add a legend to your own viz or trying to use data from another visualization's legend?

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### Author: ![michimau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michimau/32/23262_2.png) [@michimau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michimau)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vis-api-for-visualizations-legend/123109/3 "2018-03-09T08:33:38Z")

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indeed my note was quite vague. If you add in your custom visualization (createAngularVisualization in my case) configuration something like:

```
visConfig: {
  defaults: {
    addLegend: true,
    legendPosition: 'right',

```

the legend will magically show up 🙂  
however, i am looking for a method to populate or interact with it, as by default, "loading ..." is constantly displayed.

 ![Selection_004](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/6/163572ffd8153af323a1340333baff3e142c16ab.png)

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### Author: ![michimau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michimau/32/23262_2.png) [@michimau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michimau)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vis-api-for-visualizations-legend/123109/4 "2018-03-12T15:20:19Z")

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I suspect this does the business: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/v6.2.2/src/ui/public/visualize/visualize\_legend.js](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/v6.2.2/src/ui/public/visualize/visualize_legend.js)

Any hint on how to integrate it into a custom visualization?

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### Author: ![michimau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michimau/32/23262_2.png) [@michimau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michimau)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vis-api-for-visualizations-legend/123109/5 "2018-03-15T16:21:27Z")

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I guess there's no hope for this, correct? ☹

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vis-api-for-visualizations-legend/123109/6 "2018-04-12T16:21:51Z")

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