# Bool Query giving inappropriate results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-query-giving-inappropriate-results/223277
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 12, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-query-giving-inappropriate-results/223277 "2020-03-12T08:16:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@cravinder489](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cravinder489)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-query-giving-inappropriate-results/223277/1 "2020-03-12T08:16:09Z")
This is the structure of my index "chatbot" :
```
{
"chatbot" : {
"aliases" : { },
"mappings" : {
"properties" : {
"answer" : {
"type" : "text"
},
"creationDate" : {
"type" : "date"
},
"isValid" : {
"type" : "boolean"
},
"owner" : {
"type" : "text"
},
"ques" : {
"type" : "text"
},
"tags" : {
"type" : "keyword"
},
"title" : {
"type" : "text"
}
}
},
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"creation_date" : "1583998852641",
"number_of_shards" : "3",
"number_of_replicas" : "1",
"uuid" : "xd5cQ4-qSjyjumhLBAPKcQ",
"version" : {
"created" : "7010199"
},
"provided_name" : "chatbot"
}
}
}
}
```
I have data corresponding to different types of "owner". What I want to do is to search for some data in "ques" field. Also, I specify the "owner" field for getting the result from a particular owner.
For this I'm using bool query:
> GET /chatbot/\_search
> {
> "query": {
> "bool": {
> "must": [
> { "match": { "ques": "alternate sources" } }
> ],
> "filter": { "term": { "owner": "Registration" } }
> }
> }
> }
But I'm not getting any document in the result. In my data I have one document which satisfies this condition.
Why is this happening?
How do I search for different data in different fields in Elasticsearch?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-query-giving-inappropriate-results/223277/2 "2020-03-12T10:28:03Z")
Can you provide a **full but minimal** reproduction, including index creation, document indexing and the query you are using.
Also, please mention the Elasticsearch version you are trying this with. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-query-giving-inappropriate-results/223277/3 "2020-03-12T10:46:35Z")
The `term` clause in your `filter` is not tokenized so is taken as an exact match with case sensitivity.
However, the `owner` field is a `text` type field which is tokenized and therefore likely to be lower cased. That's why they don't match.
Try use a `match` clause instead which performs appropriate tokenisation for a field or make "Registration" lower-case in the `terms` clause.
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### Author:  [@cravinder489](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cravinder489)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-query-giving-inappropriate-results/223277/4 "2020-03-12T11:20:28Z")
Thank You Mark
Your reply really helped. When i give value of "owner" as "registration" instead of "Registration", I'm getting desired output.
Also, now I replaced my term query by match query and there is no issue of uppercase or lowercase.
Thank You So Much
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### Author:  [@cravinder489](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cravinder489)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-query-giving-inappropriate-results/223277/5 "2020-03-12T11:22:03Z")
Thank You Alexander for replying to my query.
It was occurring because my term clause in the filter query was not tokenized.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-query-giving-inappropriate-results/223277/6 "2020-04-09T11:22:13Z")
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