# Defining variables inside elasticsearch queries

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-variables-inside-elasticsearch-queries/87938>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 1, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-variables-inside-elasticsearch-queries/87938 "2017-06-01T15:29:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![krishna\_chaitanya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@krishna\_chaitanya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krishna_chaitanya)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-variables-inside-elasticsearch-queries/87938/1 "2017-06-01T15:29:08Z")

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Hi,

Can we define variables inside elasticsearch query? For Ex:

```
"query": {
        "range" : {
            "date" : {
                "gte" : "now-1d/d",
                "lt" : "now/d"
            }
        }
    }

```

In this range query, I want to set `gte` and `lte` based on `@timestamp` field or some variable value, and not relative or absolute value.

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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:** [June 29, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-variables-inside-elasticsearch-queries/87938/2 "2017-06-29T15:29:14Z")

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