# Way I can set the default fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-i-can-set-the-default-fields/26554
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 30, 2015, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-i-can-set-the-default-fields/26554 "2015-07-30T09:31:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-i-can-set-the-default-fields/26554/1 "2015-07-30T09:31:54Z")
HI
when I reload the UI it always goes back to the default of \_source
Is there a way I can set the default fields?
and aloso for a default dashboard
thank you
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### Author:  [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-i-can-set-the-default-fields/26554/2 "2015-07-30T16:32:32Z")
You can set the default dashboard as follows in kibana.yml:
`
default_app_id: "dashboard/Your-Dashboard/Name"
`
I'm not sure what you mean by "default fields", could you elaborate?
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### Author:  [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-i-can-set-the-default-fields/26554/3 "2015-07-30T18:20:31Z")
i want to set the default dashboard and the default discover
I was present for your conference at CERN 😄
thank you
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### Author:  [@netoben](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/netoben)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-i-can-set-the-default-fields/26554/4 "2015-07-30T19:28:05Z")
I think I have similar issue, currently Kibana 4.1 defaults to show the \_all field, but that can change to be the "message" field, or at least that was possible before.
Here's the full explanation of it...
> [@Kibana 4.1 change the Primary\_Field from \_all to something else](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-change-the-primary-field-from--all-to-something-else/26587):
>
> Hi Guys I want to disable the "\_all" field because it consumes too much space and I really don't have a use for it. However Kibana 4.1 seems to default to that field for Visualization queries. I found an old topic that said modifying the KibanaConfig.rb file and set up the Primary\_field = "\_all" to Primary\_field = "message" would do the trick. However, I cannot find the KibanaConfig.rb anywhere in my installation. Was it removed in this version? If so ... how can I change that be…
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-i-can-set-the-default-fields/26554/5 "2017-07-06T14:15:32Z")