# Visualisation challenge - not able to include documents without field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualisation-challenge-not-able-to-include-documents-without-field/367156>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** visualisation\
**Created:** [September 26, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualisation-challenge-not-able-to-include-documents-without-field/367156 "2024-09-26T07:22:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Damir\_Ciganovic-Jank](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/damir_ciganovic-jank/32/137890_2.png) [@Damir\_Ciganovic-Jank](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Damir_Ciganovic-Jank)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualisation-challenge-not-able-to-include-documents-without-field/367156/1 "2024-09-26T07:22:43Z")

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Hello, first time poster here so be gentle with me 🙂

When creating a Visualisation (for example: Lens - Top Values), there is an option to pick a field and in "Advanced" section to check "Include documents without this field".  
When I want to use a Number field, this checkbox is disabled for me. Is this expected and why is that?

Challenge that I have is that if I want to show 2 number fields on the same dashboard in similar manner, I have a challenge that these two fields are mutually excluding one another in a way that some records have field1 set and other have field2 set. Since I cannot pick "Include documents without this field", I end up without any field.

Is there any workaround for this?

Kind Regards

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**Author:** ![Marta\_Bondyra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marta_bondyra/32/102122_2.png) [@Marta\_Bondyra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marta_Bondyra)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualisation-challenge-not-able-to-include-documents-without-field/367156/2 "2024-11-15T13:13:44Z")

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Hi Damir, sorry for the very late answer. Maybe you could create a runtime field which value is determined by whether field a or field b exists and make your visualization on top of the newly created field. If that's not helpful, please describe what kind of visualization you're looking for?