# Limits of scripted fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-scripted-fields/258030>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 8, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-scripted-fields/258030 "2020-12-08T16:47:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juanfri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juanfri/32/77625_2.png) [@Juanfri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanfri)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-scripted-fields/258030/1 "2020-12-08T16:47:01Z")

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#### Hi!

First of all, sorry for my bad english.

I need some help in order to understand if I can use scripted fields for my purpose. I want to calculate a field by a multiplication with other fields. However, I must know the time for doing the multiplication, so I have to check some rows before and some rows after the actual one. Is it any way of doing it with a scripted field? I dont want to add more information with logstash.

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**Author:** ![Juanfri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juanfri/32/77625_2.png) [@Juanfri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanfri)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-scripted-fields/258030/2 "2020-12-10T12:59:04Z")

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Can scripted fields do this? Which is the alternative ?

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-scripted-fields/258030/3 "2020-12-10T17:14:32Z")

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In general, scripted fields only will allow you to work within a single document, so it's probably not possible for you to accomplish what you need.

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**Author:** ![Juanfri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juanfri/32/77625_2.png) [@Juanfri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanfri)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-scripted-fields/258030/4 "2020-12-10T17:26:04Z")

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Ok, thank you for the response :)

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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:** [January 7, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-scripted-fields/258030/5 "2021-01-07T17:26:17Z")

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