# Index pattern to format a field
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-to-format-a-field/181284
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** canvas
**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-to-format-a-field/181284 "2019-05-16T00:14:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@gbarnett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gbarnett)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-to-format-a-field/181284/1 "2019-05-16T00:14:07Z")
For my index, I have created an index pattern so that my ‘payment’ field will format as $0.00. However, when I display my payment value in a Metric widget in Canvas, the format is not honored. That is, the format is ignored.
Interestingly, I loaded the kibana\_sample\_data\_ecommerce dataset and sample canvases, and it has the same issue. It’s ‘taxable\_total\_price’ field has a custom format defined in the index pattern, but when I use this field in the canvas, this custom formatting is ignored or not applied.
I must be missing something. Why are the custom formats defined in the index patterns not applied when the associated field is displayed in a csnvas?
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### Author:  [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-to-format-a-field/181284/2 "2019-05-16T17:29:48Z")
@gbarnett Canvas does not use the index-pattern configuration of Kibana, as it is directly hitting the underlying indices with the SQL expressions.
I'd create an enhancement request for this [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-to-format-a-field/181284/3 "2019-06-13T17:30:02Z")
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