# xpackDashboardMode

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpackdashboardmode/204450>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 21, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpackdashboardmode/204450 "2019-10-21T11:29:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Matheu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matheu/32/48655_2.png) [@Matheu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matheu)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpackdashboardmode/204450/1 "2019-10-21T11:29:52Z")

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I am creating a custom dashboard only role, and need to configure adding this custom role to the "xpackDashboardMode" setting. Can anyone give me help in how I can do this, I cannot find how to set this from the kibana.yml file

Thanks

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpackdashboardmode/204450/2 "2019-10-21T13:04:48Z")

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Hi, `xpackDashboardMode:roles` is not a `kibana.yml` setting but an "Advanced setting" you can access via the Kibana web UI: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.3/advanced-dashboard-mode-configuration.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.3/advanced-dashboard-mode-configuration.html)

Just go into the Management App and press "Advanced settings" there.

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**Author:** ![Matheu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matheu/32/48655_2.png) [@Matheu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matheu)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpackdashboardmode/204450/3 "2019-10-21T13:43:30Z")

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Thanks, but I need to do this as a startup (docker) process...

also, we're using 7.4, if that makes a difference

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpackdashboardmode/204450/4 "2019-10-21T13:44:57Z")

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The advanced settings are a type of saved object in Kibana, so you can solve this by doing a curl request after Kibana has started: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/saved-objects-api.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/saved-objects-api.html)

The type of the config object is `config`

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**Author:** ![Matheu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matheu/32/48655_2.png) [@Matheu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matheu)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpackdashboardmode/204450/5 "2019-10-21T13:56:33Z")

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Thanks, that's awesome...

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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 18, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpackdashboardmode/204450/6 "2019-11-18T13:57:00Z")

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