# Autocomplete from multiple fields

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocomplete-from-multiple-fields/101478
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 22, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocomplete-from-multiple-fields/101478 "2017-09-22T12:11:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Paddy\_Mahadeva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/paddy_mahadeva/32/44225_2.png) [@Paddy\_Mahadeva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paddy_Mahadeva)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocomplete-from-multiple-fields/101478/1 "2017-09-22T12:11:05Z")

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Hi,

I have an Elasticsearch index that has documents with a field StringField1, StringField2, NumberField1 etc. I need to build an autocomplete functionality that searches on all the 3 fields.

ie.

if user inputs

> pa

it should fetch all strings in the string fields that starts with pa.

if I search 99 it should fetch all values starting with 99.  
I tried

{"query":{  
"multi\_match":{  
"query":"A\*",  
"fields":["Last\_Name", "LEAD\_SOURCE"],  
"type":"phrase\_prefix"  
}  
}  
}

But it does not give any hits.

How can i solve this?

Thanks  
Paddy

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### Author: ![Paddy\_Mahadeva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/paddy_mahadeva/32/44225_2.png) [@Paddy\_Mahadeva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paddy_Mahadeva)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocomplete-from-multiple-fields/101478/2 "2017-09-29T11:24:08Z")

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Finally I could Solve this with the below structure. Took some reading and googling

```
// {
// "query": {
// "multi_match": {
// "query": "9920200",
// "fields": ["stringField1", "StringField2", "NumberField1",],
// "type" : "phrase_prefix"
// }
// }

```

`// }`

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocomplete-from-multiple-fields/101478/3 "2017-10-27T11:24:48Z")

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