# Automatic facet while querying
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-facet-while-querying/9793
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 22, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-facet-while-querying/9793 "2012-11-22T14:47:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Tchinkatchuk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tchinkatchuk)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-facet-while-querying/9793/1 "2012-11-22T14:47:52Z")
Hi all,
I was wondering if there was a way to get facets automatically while
querying.
I explain.
I do request on the search index and ask for facets at the same time.
But I would like ES to propose facets without asking for specific ones.
Is it possible ?
Thanks.
Sylvain
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-facet-while-querying/9793/2 "2012-11-22T17:17:30Z")
Hi Sylvain,
Are you the one I met yesterday evening during my Elasticsearch talk?
What kind of facet (Term, Stat, Histo...)?
On which field?
How can Elasticsearch guess what you want to achieve?
Can you elaborate a bit more your use case?
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David 😉
Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs
Le 22 nov. 2012 à 15:47, "Georges@Bibtol" [sg@quable.fr](mailto:sg@quable.fr) a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to get facets automatically while querying.
> I explain.
> I do request on the search index and ask for facets at the same time.
> But I would like ES to propose facets without asking for specific ones.
>
> Is it possible ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ## Sylvain
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### Author:  [@Tchinkatchuk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tchinkatchuk)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-facet-while-querying/9793/3 "2012-11-26T10:20:44Z")
Hi David,
I am not the Guy you met last week. Perhaps another time cause I think
you're a french No Sql Elastic fan 🙂
I use the term research.
I use ES to index medias file (xmp attribute and other stuff). So each item
in the index has lots of medias but for a single search but only a few
attributes (on hundreds) are relevant for facetting and I could not know
before having the results which facets to display.
So I was wondering if ES was able to choose those facets for me according
to search results.
I do not know if my explanation is better !
Sylvain.
Le jeudi 22 novembre 2012 18:23:23 UTC+1, David Pilato a écrit :
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> Are you the one I met yesterday evening during my Elasticsearch talk?
>
> What kind of facet (Term, Stat, Histo...)?
> On which field?
> How can Elasticsearch guess what you want to achieve?
>
> Can you elaborate a bit more your use case?
>
> --
> David 😉
> Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs
>
> Le 22 nov. 2012 Ã 15:47, "Georges@Bibtol" \<[s...@quable.fr](mailto:s...@quable.fr) \\>
> a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to get facets automatically while
> querying.
> I explain.
> I do request on the search index and ask for facets at the same time.
> But I would like ES to propose facets without asking for specific ones.
>
> Is it possible ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sylvain
>
> --
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-facet-while-querying/9793/4 "2017-07-06T03:02:58Z")