# Visualization id references by name instead of numbers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-id-references-by-name-instead-of-numbers/230109>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 28, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-id-references-by-name-instead-of-numbers/230109 "2020-04-28T08:57:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![GershonA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gershona/32/48164_2.png) [@GershonA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GershonA)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-id-references-by-name-instead-of-numbers/230109/1 "2020-04-28T08:57:09Z")

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Hello to All,  
In my dashboard references id some time "numbers" some time "name"

```auto
     {
        "name": "panel_0",
        "type": "visualization",
        "id": "4e4bb1e0-1b1b-11e7-b09e-037021c4f8df-ecs"
      },
      {
        "name": "panel_1",
        "type": "visualization",
        "id": "System-Navigation-ecs"
      },

```

So, if I try to create markdown URL's I need to use the id's instead of a name:

![2020-04-28 11_53_48-System Navigation Metricbeat System ECS - Kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/2/f27aa9744684dac9d2486d7eebd0256d1b0d5448.png)  
Any way change the reference id to name?  
Or can I use something like "title" in markdown ?

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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:** [May 4, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-id-references-by-name-instead-of-numbers/230109/2 "2020-05-04T16:07:44Z")

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All the references are to ID, just that for that specific visualization the ID is set to a custom value.

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**Author:** ![GershonA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gershona/32/48164_2.png) [@GershonA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GershonA)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-id-references-by-name-instead-of-numbers/230109/3 "2020-05-04T17:58:58Z")

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Thank You for answer.  
Is there a way to look up a representative ID by name?

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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:** [May 4, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-id-references-by-name-instead-of-numbers/230109/4 "2020-05-04T18:09:52Z")

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You can query the .kibana index and find the visualization there, but there can be duplicate names, not duplicate IDs.

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**Author:** ![GershonA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gershona/32/48164_2.png) [@GershonA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GershonA)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-id-references-by-name-instead-of-numbers/230109/5 "2020-05-05T06:21:18Z")

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Thank You!

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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:** [June 2, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-id-references-by-name-instead-of-numbers/230109/6 "2020-06-02T06:21:20Z")

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