# Examples for scripted fields in Painless

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/examples-for-scripted-fields-in-painless/226105>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 1, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/examples-for-scripted-fields-in-painless/226105 "2020-04-01T17:51:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![elastimatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@elastimatic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elastimatic)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/examples-for-scripted-fields-in-painless/226105/1 "2020-04-01T17:51:02Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Handling empty/zero values in Scripted Fields](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/handling-empty-zero-values-in-scripted-fields/89600/6):

⬆ I have been doing some scripted field definition for some Kibana dashboards that I work with for web analytics data.

This Discuss post from 2017 feels like one of the _very_ few examples I am able to find on how to craft scripted fields in Painless. ...am I just poor at searching? I have found all the syntax guides, etc., but I keep thinking somewhere will be a collection of different examples for scripted fields, especially for things like:

- date formatting examples
- grabbing an object from an array or JSON doc value
- string manipulation
- etc.

Am I missing, like, a repo or documentation page somewhere? If so, I'd love to know!

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**Author:** ![tiagocosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagocosta/32/40045_2.png) [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/examples-for-scripted-fields-in-painless/226105/2 "2020-04-01T22:47:24Z")

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@elastimatic have you checked the following resources?

> **[Using Painless in Kibana scripted fields](https://www.elastic.co/blog/using-painless-kibana-scripted-fields)**
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> This blog presents common use cases for Kibana scripted fields, and walks user through how to create scripted fields in a newly set-up Elastic Cloud instance.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/painless/7.6/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/painless/7.6/index.html)

Hope that helps.

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**Author:** ![elastimatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@elastimatic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elastimatic)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/examples-for-scripted-fields-in-painless/226105/3 "2020-04-02T13:36:24Z")

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Yes, I did run across that, but I had to dig pretty far in the forums to find an example that fit the bill.

Maybe a wiki or GH repo of examples would be a cool idea...? I would be happy to contribute.

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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:** [April 30, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/examples-for-scripted-fields-in-painless/226105/4 "2020-04-30T13:44:12Z")

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