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# Backport

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- [[Canvas] Update function reference docs
(#156409)](#156409)

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Default: `"-_index:.kibana"`

|`index`

Alias: `dataView`
|`string`
|An index or data view. For example, `"logstash-*"`.

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|A comma-separated list of fields. For better performance, use fewer fields.

|`index`

Alias: `dataView`
|`string`
|An index or data view. For example, `"logstash-*"`.

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----
This retrieves the `Carrier`, `FlightDelayMin`, and `AvgTicketPrice` fields from the "kibana_sample_data_flights" index.

*Accepts:* `filter`
*Accepts:* `kibana_context`, `null`

[cols="3*^<"]
|===
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|`string`, `number`, `boolean`
|A parameter to be passed to the SQL query.

|`timeField`

Alias: `timeField`
|`string`
|The time field to use in the time range filter, which is set in the context.

|`timezone`

Alias: `tz`
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exactly column="project" value="beats"
----

*Code example*
[source,text]
----
kibana
| selectFilter
| exactly column=project value=elasticsearch
| demodata
| pointseries x=project y="mean(age)"
| plot defaultStyle={seriesStyle bars=1}
| render
----
The `exactly` filter here is added to existing filters retrieved by the `filters` function and further filters down the data to only have `"elasticsearch"` data. The `exactly` filter only applies to this one specific element and will not affect other elements in the workpad.

*Accepts:* `filter`

[cols="3*^<"]
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[[filters_fn]]
=== `filters`

Aggregates element filters from the workpad for use elsewhere, usually a data source.
Aggregates element filters from the workpad for use elsewhere, usually a data source. <<filters_fn>> is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use `kibana | selectFilter` instead.

*Expression syntax*
[source,js]
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[[mathColumn_fn]]
=== `mathColumn`

Adds a column by evaluating TinyMath on each row. This function is optimized for math, so it performs better than the mapColumn with a math
Adds a column by evaluating `TinyMath` on each row. This function is optimized for math and performs better than using a math expression in <<mapColumn_fn>>.

*Accepts:* `datatable`

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|`string`
|An evaluated `TinyMath` expression. See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/canvas-tinymath-functions.html.

|`castColumns` †
|`string`
|The column ids that are cast to numbers before the formula is applied.

|`copyMetaFrom`
|`string`, `null`
|If set, the meta object from the specified column id is copied over to the specified target column. If the column doesn't exist it silently fails.
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