# Is it possible to drive a kibana dashboard with custom filters?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-drive-a-kibana-dashboard-with-custom-filters/56049
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 21, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-drive-a-kibana-dashboard-with-custom-filters/56049 "2016-07-21T02:14:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@soneymathew](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/soneymathew)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-drive-a-kibana-dashboard-with-custom-filters/56049/1 "2016-07-21T02:14:21Z")
Is it possible to drive a kibana dashboard with custom filters ?
I mean like have a set of checkboxes which i can select/unselect to change the display results ?
My example is this ..
I want to create kibana dashboard with 4 pie charts …
each of them is querying the same dataset but representing different perspectives
I want to add a filter facility that will allow people to select/unselect checkboxes that change all the 4 graphs
The content of the filters is one of the fields that is part of the dataset that is represented in the graph
Concrete Example :
Visualize the content of a directory with 100 folders
Graph 1 : Distribution of extensions as piechart
Graph 2 : Distribution of extensions and file sizes
Filter : Show list of top level directories which show all as selected and when they unselect a directory , Graph1 and Graph 2 updates to exclude the datasets that reflect that.
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### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-drive-a-kibana-dashboard-with-custom-filters/56049/2 "2016-07-21T06:42:49Z")
@soneymathew, from Discover you can create filters which will carry over to the Dashboard. You can copy that URL and create a Markdown visualization and place it on the Dashboard. Users could then click the link to update the Dashboard.
Another option would be to create the segments in a pie chart, and users could click the segmented key within the visualization to add the selection as a filter.
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### Author:  [@soneymathew](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/soneymathew)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-drive-a-kibana-dashboard-with-custom-filters/56049/3 "2016-07-22T06:33:19Z")
I was hoping for a real slick experience this might dampen the experience as well and lot of work to create all possible links ☹
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### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-drive-a-kibana-dashboard-with-custom-filters/56049/4 "2016-07-22T18:59:33Z")
Feel free to open an issue for a feature enhancement: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new)
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### Author:  [@JuanCarniglia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JuanCarniglia)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-drive-a-kibana-dashboard-with-custom-filters/56049/5 "2016-08-02T03:00:42Z")
What you are looking at here is a custom visualization (a Plugin).
I can develop this for you, if you want. Check out some of my Kibana Plugins at [https://github.com/JuanCarniglia](https://github.com/JuanCarniglia).
If you like to do so yourself, I can give you pointers and advice.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-drive-a-kibana-dashboard-with-custom-filters/56049/6 "2017-07-06T13:42:39Z")