# Visualization - Control Multiselect

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-control-multiselect/170133
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 27, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-control-multiselect/170133 "2019-02-27T10:04:33Z")
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### Author: ![ek9boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/50afbb/32.png) [@ek9boy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ek9boy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-control-multiselect/170133/1 "2019-02-27T10:04:33Z")

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I am creating a visualization Control.

I select an index pattern.  
I select a field.

This created a control box where i can select from a selection of fields.

However from the 5 populated fields, A, B, C, D , & E. i dont want E.

If there a way to filter this out of the dropdown?

Thanks

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### Author: ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-control-multiselect/170133/2 "2019-02-27T18:23:21Z")

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@ek9boy

You can't restrict manually which options to show, but you can turn off "dynamic options" setting

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/1/d161278c32f245989099ede0e76be192f71ee375.png)

It will limit the number of options based on count. Perhaps that's sufficient? If not, I would log a feature request in the Kibana repo [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new)

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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: [March 27, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-control-multiselect/170133/3 "2019-03-27T18:23:21Z")

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