# Filter Bar filter options

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-bar-filter-options/54848>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 6, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-bar-filter-options/54848 "2016-07-06T16:10:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![masslive717](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@masslive717](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/masslive717)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-bar-filter-options/54848/1 "2016-07-06T16:10:32Z")

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Recently I have created a Kibana Custom plugin. It is a funnel plugin. I am trying to add more functionality to the funnel plugin where if I click on any tear of the funnel I would like to add a filter of that tear to the filter bar(Global filter to the dashboard). I would like assistance in how I could code a click event to create a filter bar filter. If you can point me to sample code or code or example how to create a filter bar filter that would be helpful.

When I am referring to filter bar filter I mean the circled thing from the below image.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b622dfef9c6bd11ad7e4665bbf8c5850bc02bbeb.PNG)

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-bar-filter-options/54848/2 "2016-07-07T18:23:41Z")

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I would check out @timroes excellent blog post on Visualization plugins: [https://www.timroes.de/2015/12/06/writing-kibana-4-plugins-visualizations-using-data/](https://www.timroes.de/2015/12/06/writing-kibana-4-plugins-visualizations-using-data/)

There's a section in there on adding filters: [https://www.timroes.de/2015/12/06/writing-kibana-4-plugins-visualizations-using-data/#adding-filters-on-click](https://www.timroes.de/2015/12/06/writing-kibana-4-plugins-visualizations-using-data/#adding-filters-on-click)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-bar-filter-options/54848/3 "2017-07-06T13:47:53Z")

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