# Pass filter to dashboard URL in Markdown Menu? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [May 25, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pass-filter-to-dashboard-url-in-markdown-menu/50991 "2016-05-25T21:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mick\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Mick\_Mahoney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mick_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pass-filter-to-dashboard-url-in-markdown-menu/50991/1 "2016-05-25T21:24:55Z")
Hi, I have a Markdown Menu with which I use to navigate between dashboards. Example of menu URL: [MySystemDashash](#dashboard/SystemDashboard) Anyone know of how I can pass a filter to that dashboard as part of the Markdown ? I know the filter gets passed in URL (Im using Kibana 5.0.0-alpha2) as &\_a - I've extracted an example below - but I'm not sure if/how I can append this to my Markdown URL &\_a=(filters:!(('$state':(store:appState),meta:(alias:!n,disabled:!f,index:'logstashprocess\*',key:proc.cmdline.keyword,negate:!f,value:'postgres:%20tpcc%20tpcc%2016.250.50.33(13830)%20idle'),query:(match:(proc.cmdline.keyword:(query:'postgres:%20tpcc%20tpcc%2016.250.50.33(13830)%20idle',type:phrase))))),linked:!t,query:(query\_string:(query:'\*')) Thanks Mick ---
**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pass-filter-to-dashboard-url-in-markdown-menu/50991/2 "2016-05-25T23:42:21Z")
If you apply the filter to the dashboard, click "Share", copy the URL and place it in the Markdown. Does that accomplish what you're looking to do? `[SomeFilter](https://localhost:5601/ryx/app/kibana#/dashboard/Test?_g=...)` ---
**Author:** ![Mick\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Mick\_Mahoney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mick_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pass-filter-to-dashboard-url-in-markdown-menu/50991/3 "2016-05-26T19:55:20Z")
Perfect - many thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mick\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Mick\_Mahoney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mick_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pass-filter-to-dashboard-url-in-markdown-menu/50991/4 "2016-06-07T21:00:38Z")
I've found that sometimes the brackets in the URLs get parsed incorrectly - resulting in malformed links. Its best to replace ( with %28, and ) with %29 in the URL before using it in the Markdown link Cheers Mick ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pass-filter-to-dashboard-url-in-markdown-menu/50991/5 "2017-07-06T13:51:15Z")