Allow users to specify display names for fields

[chevin99]

It would be handy to have somewhere to put some JSON to display shorter/prettier field name aliases throughout Kibana.

For example:

{
  "store.address.state" : "State",
  "store.product_list.product.price: "Price",
  "long.elasticsearch.field.name" : "Short Name"
}

So instead of seeing "store.address.state" in a dropdown box or in a visualization you would see "State".

[rashidkpc]

The current way to make field shorter can be set in Settings > Advanced:

[chevin99]

Cool, I may use that for now. Thanks for the quick reply.

[fpompermaier]

Aliases will be definitely useful

[antoinebaudoux]

+1 on this. If you guide me I can try to implement it

[pupamanyu]

+1

[ajrasch]

+1 This would be extremely cool for aggregation of data across multiple
sources...

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wrote:

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[sgilesaus]

Hi,

I have changed the shortdots:enable setting, but it has made no difference.
The fields within the "popular fields" pane on the discovery view and the fields in the _Source view still show the full size names.
for example the names in _source are
event.eventPointData.eventData.eventSequence.creationTime
event.eventPointData.eventData.eventSchemaVersion
event.eventPointData.eventData.eventSourceAddress

and the names shown in the popular fields are correspondingly
event.eventPointData.eventData.eventS..
event.eventPointData.eventData.eventS..
event.eventPointData.eventData.eventS..

After making the change, I have stopped and started elasticsearch, kabana and the browser but with no success.
Is there anything else I need to do to get this working? is there another way to get the field names into the popular fields rather than the full path?

[pickworth]

+1

[pickworth]

Ability to have field aliases per visualization, search object as well as per index, and across all indexes would be really, really, awesome.

Please see my comment on other issue: #2386

[joshsuihn]

I'm new to Kibana4.. After shortDots:enable is set to true, how can I use this feature?: I mean, how to change field names using aliases in Discover or individual visualizations? (where and how to configure ?...) I googled many pages but didn't find any yet. Thanks

[danielcbright]

👍

[madslyng]

Very useful!

[scotwells]

👍

[biswajit86]

👍

[fakeh]

This would be very useful when combined with #706

[markwalkom]

+1, sooner is better.

[joelclimbsthings]

+1

[aki017]

+1

[AlexIoannides]

+1

[kaib]

+1

[gusreiber]

+1

[gusreiber]

If anyone is still looking for a partial work-around, if the field is numeric, you can use a "Scripted field" to alias the label:

"Nice script name" ==> doc['crazy.index.name.that.is.terrible'].value

via the gui "Settings" > "Indices" > [some index] > "+Add Scripted field"

I am not sure what sprinkling Lucene scripts all over the place is likely to do to performance, likely nothing good, but it helped us a few cases. If anyone has anything better for labels on strings, I am in need of a solution.

[Renatdk]

+1

[cjcenizal]

Closing this because this use case will be addressed by the introduction of field aliases to Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/alias.html).

[Kolano]

This shouldn't have been closed. ES Aliases only seem to allow replacement by valid ES field names and thus don't support aliases using spaces or other odd formatting, for instance this request in the original posting...

"long.elasticsearch.field.name" : "Short Name"

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app (Team:KibanaApp)

[cjcenizal]

Thanks @Kolano! You're right. I'm reopening this issue because field aliases don't wholly address the original request. I've also changed the title to clarify the request and assigned the issue to the team that will own this enhancement.

[fbaligand]

Thanks @cjcenizal to have reopened the issue!
I will be very happy if this feature is implemented! Particularly to have saved searches with beautiful column labels (with spaces,...) that you put on business dashboards !

[timroes]

@fbaligand We created #47659 to track the effort of renaming column titles in Discover (and thus Saved Searches) separately, since this will mostly happen earlier and separated from having a way to specify display names for fields all across Kibana (which we would use this issue to track this).

[fbaligand]

Great!
Thanks!

[spottedmahn]

Hi @timroes 👋

We created #47659 to track the effort of renaming column titles in Discover (and thus Saved Searches) separately

Isn't that ask already out there in #15246?

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app-arch (Team:AppArch)

[mattkime]

closed via #70039