# Auto suggestions
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-suggestions/5454
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 26, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-suggestions/5454 "2011-09-26T16:22:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@arien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arien)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-suggestions/5454/1 "2011-09-26T16:22:46Z")
Hi all;
This is more of a logical doubt than considering it as a technical
problem.I want to implement auto suggestion using values extracted
from Elastic search index for query string...if is there any possible
way in which i can implement this feature then please suggest.
Thanks;
Arien
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### Author:  [@vinhphu1711](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinhphu1711)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-suggestions/5454/2 "2011-09-27T03:07:30Z")
Generally speaking, there're some basic steps you can follow:
1. From the original documents, extract all the "phrases" that you want to
be suggested words for user when they type query. For example: title can be
a good candidate. You might also want to extract all entity names,
questions...
2. Put all the "phrases" into 1 special field (or maybe more than one), and
define that field as "not\_analyzed" or "keyword".
3. Use facet regex query to get suggested items, given some characters user
has types.
LTVP
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:22 AM, arien [ajaypadvi@gmail.com](mailto:ajaypadvi@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi all;
> This is more of a logical doubt than considering it as a technical
> problem.I want to implement auto suggestion using values extracted
> from Elastic search index for query string...if is there any possible
> way in which i can implement this feature then please suggest.
> Thanks;
> Arien
--
Le Truong Vinh Phu
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### Author:  [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-suggestions/5454/3 "2011-09-29T07:35:50Z")
(edge)ngram instead of facet regex should be faster.
On 27 Sep., 05:07, Le Truong Vinh Phu [le.truong.vinh....@gmail.com](mailto:le.truong.vinh....@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Generally speaking, there're some basic steps you can follow:
>
> 1. From the original documents, extract all the "phrases" that you want to
> be suggested words for user when they type query. For example: title can be
> a good candidate. You might also want to extract all entity names,
> questions...
> 2. Put all the "phrases" into 1 special field (or maybe more than one), and
> define that field as "not\_analyzed" or "keyword".
> 3. Use facet regex query to get suggested items, given some characters user
> has types.
>
> LTVP
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:22 AM, arien [ajaypa...@gmail.com](mailto:ajaypa...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Hi all;
> > This is more of a logical doubt than considering it as a technical
> > problem.I want to implement auto suggestion using values extracted
> > from Elastic search index for query string...if is there any possible
> > way in which i can implement this feature then please suggest.
> > Thanks;
> > Arien
>
> --
> Le Truong Vinh Phu
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-suggestions/5454/4 "2017-07-06T03:53:23Z")