# Search Boxes in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-boxes-in-kibana/90488>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 22, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-boxes-in-kibana/90488 "2017-06-22T15:25:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@ahad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ahad)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-boxes-in-kibana/90488/1 "2017-06-22T15:25:49Z")

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I am new to Kibana and had a question about customization. I wanted to find a way to make custom search boxes for different fields. An example of this might be having 2 separate search boxes in which you can narrow the search by city and firstname. I am not sure if this is possible with Kibana, or if it would require a custom plugin. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![BigFunger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigfunger/32/7323_2.png) [@BigFunger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BigFunger)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-boxes-in-kibana/90488/2 "2017-06-22T16:28:22Z")

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There are a few potential solutions to your question.

The main ways that kibana allows for filtering/searching of data are:

1. The Search bar at the top of the screen.  

2. The creation of filters  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/4/04250096e3d29cde35148a2692b506c68211f4b5.png)

Other than those ways, there isn't an easy way for you to add custom controls to your dashboards or visualizations.

To create custom functionality like that, you have a couple of options.

1. Create a plugin that adds the functionality that you want. [Plugin Generator](https://github.com/elastic/generator-kibana-plugin)
2. Write a custom web application and embed visualizations/dashboards from kibana. You then can control the state of those objects by manipulating the url. (add search terms or filters to a visualization in kibana and examine the changes in the url of your embed to figure out how to do what you want to do)

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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:** [July 20, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-boxes-in-kibana/90488/3 "2017-07-20T16:28:38Z")

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