# Kibana -\> interactive controls

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interactive-controls/297172>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 14, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interactive-controls/297172 "2022-02-14T17:17:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![lupolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@lupolo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lupolo)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interactive-controls/297172/1 "2022-02-14T17:17:16Z")

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Interactive controls in Kibana are great but I have not figured out a way to pass a variable from an interactive control to a visualization widget. For example:  
Let's say we have a pull down menu interactive control labeled as aggregateBy. The possible values of this pull down menu could by any `cluster` , `partner` , `region` ... Then we have a lens visualization that grouping by value is set by the selected pull down control value `cluster` , `partnerId` or `region` .

How do you do this? If we can do this, users should not create multiple visualization perspectives.....

Thanks in advanced.

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**Author:** ![devon.thomson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/devon.thomson/32/85468_2.png) [@devon.thomson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devon.thomson)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interactive-controls/297172/2 "2022-02-15T21:31:04Z")

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Hi @lupolo, right now there is no way to pass configuration variables from a Control to a chart.

We are considering building a variables system as part of our new Controls project, but this behaviour will take a long time to be built.

You can track our progress on this project [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/120035)

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**Author:** ![lupolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@lupolo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lupolo)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interactive-controls/297172/3 "2022-02-16T15:22:33Z")

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Thanks Devon!

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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 16, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interactive-controls/297172/4 "2022-03-16T15:23:11Z")

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