How to Access Kibana time range (timepicker) in a painless script

[gyannea]

When making a search for documents that have a time stamp the user can specify a time range over which the search will be done. It looks like this in the search request:

        {
          "range": {
            "date": {
              "format": "strict_date_optional_time",
              "gte": "2023-02-01T05:00:00.000Z",
              "lte": "2023-03-02T15:11:30.784Z"
            }
          }
        }

I have a painless script in this search that does some computations on a time field. To do some further analysis I need to know the time range of the search.

How could I get these same range values so I could use them in my painless script?

I am stuck with version 7.1.1.

I have just found out this is called 'timepicker' and this issue was brought up some years ago

Use timepicker value for script

Hi! Thank you for your works! Can I use timepicker value from kibana dashboard for the script? I used this kind of script before. doc['date1'].value-doc['date'].value What I want to do is that using timepicker value(from dashboard) for calculating scripted field dynamically. doc['date1'].value - timepicker value Thanks. HJ

and at the time it was not possible. An enhancement request was made. Did it happen and if so where are the docs?

[gyannea]

Migrated to 7.10.2 and I still find no means of accessing the timepicker values.

[nickpeihl]

Hi @gyannea. It looks like an enhancement request was made a while back, but it was closed due to inactivity. I suggest adding a comment detailing your needs and re-opening the issue.