Kibana Canvas - Ignore filters for fields that are not contained in the index

[tarkin67]

Hi Canvas Team,

I am at the moment experimenting with canvas and very happy with it so far. One thing that bothers me a bit however, is that currently in canvas all filters are always applied to all elements. It would be nice to have a setting to ignore filters for fields that are not present in the index of a visualization. This would prevent certain views from receiving an empty dataset when a filter for a visualization with another index is set. In kibana there is the "courier:ignoreFilterIfFieldNotInIndex" option, however this does not have any effect on canvas visualizations.

Thanks and best regards

[bhavyarm]

@Catherine_Liu can you please take this question?

Cheers,
Bhavya

[Catherine_Liu]

To opt out of the filters, you can remove filters | from the beginning of your element's expression. Currently, the Canvas filters work differently from the ones in used in Kibana, and we don't support courier:ignoreFilterIfFieldNotInIndex setting. However, we do plan to make improvements to our filter architecture to make it easier to opt in/out of filters.

[tarkin67]

Thank you for your response. This is a start already, however I would like to be able to still filter on other fields that are present in the visualization's index and not just remove all filtering whatsoever. Looking forward to what comes next!