# Global Variable for Script Filter
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variable-for-script-filter/18334
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 25, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variable-for-script-filter/18334 "2014-06-25T14:51:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@bbehling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bbehling)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variable-for-script-filter/18334/1 "2014-06-25T14:51:59Z")
I'm using the following script filter:
```
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"filter": {
"and": [
{
"or": [
{
"term": {
"states": "co"
}
}
]
},
{
"script" : {
"script" : "count++; count <= 3",
"params" : {
"count" : 0
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
```
With this query, I'm expecting to get one results back. But since we have 5
shards set up on our ES server, I actually get back 15 results.
Is there a way with a script filter to make the count variable global, or
so that the variable is not reset when searching another shard?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variable-for-script-filter/18334/2 "2017-07-06T01:19:49Z")