# Lock lens from filters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lock-lens-from-filters/287168>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lock-lens-from-filters/287168 "2021-10-20T08:51:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Greninja\_San](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greninja_san/32/96119_2.png) [@Greninja\_San](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greninja_San)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lock-lens-from-filters/287168/1 "2021-10-20T08:51:35Z")

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Hello!

I am currently trying to create a filter selector that is not a dropdown. Since there are no checkboxes, I'm trying to use a pie chart as the selector.

Is it possible to create a checkbox list, and if not, to prevent a lens from being affected by filters so it always stays the same?

Thank you 🙂

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**Author:** ![Greninja\_San](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greninja_san/32/96119_2.png) [@Greninja\_San](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greninja_San)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lock-lens-from-filters/287168/2 "2021-10-20T09:15:03Z")

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Or is it possible to choose a saved query from a more visual thing than tye button on the top left corner?

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**Author:** ![Marta\_Bondyra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marta_bondyra/32/102122_2.png) [@Marta\_Bondyra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marta_Bondyra)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lock-lens-from-filters/287168/3 "2021-10-20T09:19:43Z")

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Hi there,

unfortunately, the 'ignore global filters' setting only exists in TSVB at the moment. There's an issue open that you can upvote ["Ignore Global Filter" for all visualization types · Issue #17789 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17789) about this topic.

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**Author:** ![Marta\_Bondyra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marta_bondyra/32/102122_2.png) [@Marta\_Bondyra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marta_Bondyra)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lock-lens-from-filters/287168/4 "2021-10-20T09:24:07Z")

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For quick selecting the items, you could either create multiple filters and check/uncheck them (click with Shift to quickly toggle) or you could use control visualization.

Filters:

 ![Screenshot 2021-10-20 at 11.23.33](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/8/98bdc6b25c1012f1f18b3cded1f5f2534ab96ba0.png)

Control vis from the sample flights data:  
 ![Screenshot 2021-10-20 at 11.23.55](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/4/14155cc8af9a5b1ae2f012f6c21226b330c966ca.png)

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**Author:** ![Greninja\_San](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/greninja_san/32/96119_2.png) [@Greninja\_San](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Greninja_San)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lock-lens-from-filters/287168/5 "2021-10-20T09:33:49Z")

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Thank you for your quick answer.

I see the GitHub post is from 2018. Is there any chance it will be selected in a close future?

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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:** [November 17, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lock-lens-from-filters/287168/6 "2021-11-17T09:34:03Z")

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