# Boolean searching a multi-value multi-field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boolean-searching-a-multi-value-multi-field/138359>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boolean-searching-a-multi-value-multi-field/138359 "2018-07-03T11:05:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boolean-searching-a-multi-value-multi-field/138359/2 "2018-07-03T11:23:52Z")

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Yes you need to use a nested data type for this.  
Or you can denormalize your data and index only the element of the array as a single document.

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