# Adding together kibana timelion variables

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-together-kibana-timelion-variables/157013>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [November 16, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-together-kibana-timelion-variables/157013 "2018-11-16T09:16:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BlueSpirit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bluespirit/32/44056_2.png) [@BlueSpirit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BlueSpirit)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-together-kibana-timelion-variables/157013/1 "2018-11-16T09:16:34Z")

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I am using a variable that holds a numeric value used later in the _timelion_ script.

For simplicity, I have created a simple problem.

 ![timelionvariable](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/5/4547cbb794efb7dae77dab4130e6078b9c8b9fe4.png)

As you can see, I am using a variable `threshold` which holds my value. I want to reuse it inside `label` method.

I am able to use it by writing `.label($threshold)` , but appending the variable with string literal(shown in image) ignores the variable.

How should I achieve this?

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-together-kibana-timelion-variables/157013/2 "2018-11-19T17:00:17Z")

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@BlueSpirit

I don't think timelion scripts support this type of concatenation.

I would create an enhancement request [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new)

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**Author:** ![BlueSpirit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bluespirit/32/44056_2.png) [@BlueSpirit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BlueSpirit)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-together-kibana-timelion-variables/157013/3 "2018-11-20T05:53:22Z")

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Added a request [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/25915).

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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:** [December 18, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-together-kibana-timelion-variables/157013/4 "2018-12-18T05:53:23Z")

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