# Get a OR on controls

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 17, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498 "2022-02-17T13:45:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author: ![Greninja\_San](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greninja_san/32/96119_2.png) [@Greninja\_San](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greninja_San)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/1 "2022-02-17T13:45:52Z")

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Hello!

I'm currently working with Kibana and setting the Controls  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/7/17ed771195a7a44dca2d02871b921e2b46f4777e.png)

Now, if I fill both fields Expéditeur and Destinataire, the comparison between the 2 will be an AND, meaning a document will need to have both.

Would it possible to have a OR there, meaning we would only need one of the fields to have a document selected?

Thanks \<3

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### Author: ![Tomo\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@Tomo\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tomo_M)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/2 "2022-02-20T11:25:24Z")

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In my 7.17, there are multiselect option to filter by OR.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/d/0d3a2495dd681c73bc21d26665a95f7e0d5d2d39.png)

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/d/ed1ea2fe61291d2e05a91c75d9f01a5a98da9d7c.png)

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### Author: ![Greninja\_San](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greninja_san/32/96119_2.png) [@Greninja\_San](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greninja_San)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/3 "2022-02-20T15:54:20Z")

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Well that's not what I meant.

The OR would need to be between 2 different fields, and not inside the same one.

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### Author: ![Tomo\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@Tomo\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tomo_M)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/4 "2022-02-20T16:00:40Z")

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Now I understand what you want but I suppose there is no such option.

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### Author: ![Greninja\_San](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greninja_san/32/96119_2.png) [@Greninja\_San](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greninja_San)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/5 "2022-02-20T16:11:33Z")

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Yea I kinda anticipated that. Thanks anyway.

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### Author: ![wlisikpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4af34b/32.png) [@wlisikpl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wlisikpl)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/6 "2022-02-20T17:54:49Z")

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@Greninja_San you want something like: `if conditionX OR conditionY is met do something`?  
If so, than @Tomo_M is right. However, there is some **walkaround** for this: use nested ( looped ) IFs.

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### Author: ![Greninja\_San](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greninja_san/32/96119_2.png) [@Greninja\_San](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greninja_San)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/7 "2022-02-20T18:52:10Z")

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That could work. But we're already at more than 7.000.000 documents and I'm a bit afraid of calculus time.

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### Author: ![wlisikpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4af34b/32.png) [@wlisikpl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wlisikpl)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/8 "2022-02-20T19:16:42Z")

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> [@Greninja\_San](#):
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> calculus time.

Indeed, with more than 7m documents, calculaions may take some time...... but I wouldnt exxagarate; it wouldnt take forever......... 🙂

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### Author: ![Greninja\_San](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greninja_san/32/96119_2.png) [@Greninja\_San](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greninja_San)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/9 "2022-02-20T19:36:16Z")

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We add approximately 4 millions documents a month. It will rise. (I already have issues with some graph with so much data)

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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: [March 20, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-a-or-on-controls/297498/10 "2022-03-20T19:37:10Z")

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