# Dropdown to select the agregation of a chart

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-to-select-the-agregation-of-a-chart/158357>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 27, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-to-select-the-agregation-of-a-chart/158357 "2018-11-27T14:30:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ilanas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@ilanas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ilanas)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-to-select-the-agregation-of-a-chart/158357/1 "2018-11-27T14:30:10Z")

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Good afternoon,

Is there any option to insert one dropdown in a dashboard? For example, one dropdown with this two options:sumfield1,sumfield2. This dropdown point to one line chart and this chart change de data depending the selected option in the dropdown

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-to-select-the-agregation-of-a-chart/158357/2 "2018-11-27T14:42:43Z")

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The Input Control visualization might be just what you're looking for: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/add-input-controls.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/add-input-controls.html)

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**Author:** ![ilanas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@ilanas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ilanas)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-to-select-the-agregation-of-a-chart/158357/3 "2018-11-27T14:47:57Z")

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I think that the input control is only one filter of data. But i want the next, when i select the option sumfield1 in the chart i want to plot in y axis the sum of the field1. If i select sumfield2 i want to plot the sum of the field2. this input control only filter the data no?

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**Author:** ![ilanas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@ilanas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ilanas)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-to-select-the-agregation-of-a-chart/158357/4 "2018-11-27T14:49:27Z")

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i want to select the sum to plot. now in the dashboard i have 3 charts. i want to have only one but changing the selector plot any one of the thre charts

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-to-select-the-agregation-of-a-chart/158357/5 "2018-11-27T14:54:46Z")

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You're right, the input control is just a filter. Kibana doesn't have a mechanism to do what you're looking for.

The closest think I can think of is to create a Markdown visualization which contains a link to another entire dashboard, and that dashboard could have a specific visualization for the plot you're interested in.

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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 25, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-to-select-the-agregation-of-a-chart/158357/6 "2018-12-25T14:56:01Z")

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