# Drilldowns using scripted fields to preserve timestamps
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drilldowns-using-scripted-fields-to-preserve-timestamps/242339
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drilldowns-using-scripted-fields-to-preserve-timestamps/242339 "2020-07-23T12:40:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kilianten](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kilianten)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drilldowns-using-scripted-fields-to-preserve-timestamps/242339/1 "2020-07-23T12:40:10Z")
Hey, Im currently using 7.2 Kibana
I'd like to be able to preserve the timestamp when using drilldowns in scripted fields.
For example, if I'm looking at a dashboard with the timerange 30d-Now to now, I'd like to be able to drill down and still have the timerange 30d-Now on the new dashabord.
I've seen this being raised before but couldn't find any status on it currently.
Thanks,
Kilian
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### Author:  [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drilldowns-using-scripted-fields-to-preserve-timestamps/242339/2 "2020-07-24T21:17:37Z")
Hey @kilianten, Unfortunately I'm not sure if there's a way to preserve dashboard dates in a URL via scripted fields, as those are run against each document and don't necessarily know anything about the current dashboard state.
However, we [added support for dashboard-to-dashboard drilldowns in 7.8](https://www.elastic.co/fr/blog/kibana-7-8-0-released) which provides an easy way to do what you describe.
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### Author:  [@kilianten](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kilianten)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drilldowns-using-scripted-fields-to-preserve-timestamps/242339/3 "2020-07-28T09:31:25Z")
Hey Luke, I'll upgrade and see how it goes, thanks for the information
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drilldowns-using-scripted-fields-to-preserve-timestamps/242339/4 "2020-08-25T09:31:28Z")
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