# Backward searchafter functionality **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 26, 2017, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-searchafter-functionality/83683 "2017-04-26T11:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![heni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@heni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heni)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-searchafter-functionality/83683/1 "2017-04-26T11:11:27Z")
Is it possible to have a search\_before api using sort curser, same as search\_after? When having large amount of results, it makes more sense to implement backend scroll up instead of cashing all results in the app. ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-searchafter-functionality/83683/2 "2017-04-26T14:36:56Z")
I'm not an expert at all on `search_after` but have you tried reversing the sort? ---
**Author:** ![heni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@heni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heni)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-searchafter-functionality/83683/3 "2017-04-27T11:42:42Z")
Nice idea, but I still need to re-sort elastic results before sending the page to the app. Getting this functionality in elastic will be the optimized way. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-searchafter-functionality/83683/4 "2017-05-25T11:46:48Z")
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