# \[WATCHER\] Failed to Transform payload - Keyword field

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-failed-to-transform-payload-keyword-field/345666
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 24, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-failed-to-transform-payload-keyword-field/345666 "2023-10-24T20:30:53Z")
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### Author: ![Rossana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rossana/32/94216_2.png) [@Rossana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rossana)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-failed-to-transform-payload-keyword-field/345666/1 "2023-10-24T20:30:53Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to configure a **Watcher** of a machine learning job.  
The ML job is a population job that works with **keyword fields**.

A cause of using the keyword field, watcher gives me this error:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/f/4fd64eb1ecdebd241331502a558b24e3c66cad6d.png)

This is the search of the watcher:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/2/226560452ca442b69bf394954ac1c5c8c072c35f.png)

This is the original payload all good till here:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/1/11156db3e4346bac7a17e4e7ee687a1e7c7f985b.png)

**BUT**  
Tranform payload error:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/5/a5e724360c2c1239061d785aeaa2249bd7a4e0fc.jpeg)

**I cannot access to fields keyword!!! What can I do?**

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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: [November 21, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-failed-to-transform-payload-keyword-field/345666/2 "2023-11-21T20:31:35Z")

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