Use Kibana Date picker calendar on imported data

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I am working on a PoC to visualise 5 years worth of data records.
I have used the PHP client to import 5 years worth of data into my Indicies.
I have a date field in each document called 'DateObtained' which is a date format 'yyyy-MM-dd'.
I want to visualise this data using Kibana, this includes using the Date picker on the top right to filter the data.
This is currently not working and after much searching I can't see any documentation around this concept, although I must assume that this is a common need.

How do I get the Date picker to filter my data?
Do I need to add a new date field with a different date format?
Is there a way to point the Date picker to a specific field in my Indices?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Hi @Robin_Gorry Welcome to the community!.

First always include the version you're on. So what version are you on?

When you create a dataview, you can select the date field that it uses and then discover will work off of that date field.

See the docs here

Open the Timestamp field dropdown, and then select the default field for filtering your data by time.

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Thanks @stephenb for your reply.
I'm using v 8.17.4.
Thank you very much for pointing me straight to the field I needed to use.
I've spent hours trawling search results for that.