# Dynamically set absolute time in time picker based on doc value

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamically-set-absolute-time-in-time-picker-based-on-doc-value/156177
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 11, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamically-set-absolute-time-in-time-picker-based-on-doc-value/156177 "2018-11-11T02:40:39Z")
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### Author: ![kmsasidhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kmsasidhar/32/21838_2.png) [@kmsasidhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kmsasidhar)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamically-set-absolute-time-in-time-picker-based-on-doc-value/156177/1 "2018-11-11T02:40:39Z")

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Dear Kibana experts,

ELK - 6.3.2

I have an index with documents with three date and timestamp fields.

run\_date  
start\_date\_time  
end\_date\_time

I want to use start\_date\_time value as absolute start time in time picker and end\_date\_time as end time in date picker.

How can I do that?

Purpose:  
Some tasks for a particular date run with a start time and end time for a duration of 8-10 hours. The start time and end time are not fixed. I want to visualise metricbeat data and log between start time and end time in a dashboard.

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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 9, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamically-set-absolute-time-in-time-picker-based-on-doc-value/156177/2 "2018-12-09T02:40:53Z")

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