# Units management based on user personnal preference

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/units-management-based-on-user-personnal-preference/190734>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 16, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/units-management-based-on-user-personnal-preference/190734 "2019-07-16T12:31:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paulo64](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/paulo64/32/48977_2.png) [@Paulo64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paulo64)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/units-management-based-on-user-personnal-preference/190734/1 "2019-07-16T12:31:24Z")

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Hello,

What is the best way to deal with units managements in Kibana.  
Let's say each of the documents in my index contain serveral fields / values, each with a specific unit, for example degrees Celisus.

What would you do to give the end user the ability to switch from Celsius to Farnaheit without diving into the code / typing query. Timelion is nice to apply coefficients, formulas etc. but is not appropriate for end users in my organization.

Is there a way to have some sort of **units management place where the user would define his units personnal preferences once and then all dashboard/viz would use these settings**? Maybe with some sort of templated scripted fields ?

Thanks to share your experience regarding that matter,

Have a good day,

Paul

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/units-management-based-on-user-personnal-preference/190734/2 "2019-07-18T13:09:45Z")

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Other than using separate spaces for each setting, this wouldn't really be doable in Kibana.

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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:** [August 15, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/units-management-based-on-user-personnal-preference/190734/3 "2019-08-15T13:09:51Z")

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