# Boosting has no effect in a Bool-Filter query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-has-no-effect-in-a-bool-filter-query/70891
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 8, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-has-no-effect-in-a-bool-filter-query/70891 "2017-01-08T17:35:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@muwnd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muwnd)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-has-no-effect-in-a-bool-filter-query/70891/1 "2017-01-08T17:35:58Z")
I'm trying to add a boost to documents that match to a term filter. The basis is a Boolean/MatchAll query. But the boosting in my Elasticsearch query has no effect. All result scores are set to 1:
```
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/wiki_content/_search?pretty -d '
{
"_source": [
"title"
],
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match_all": {}
}
],
"filter": [
{
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"term": {
"title.keyword": {
"value": "Main Page",
"boost": 9
}
}
},
{
"term": {
"title.keyword": {
"value": "Top Page",
"boost": 999
}
}
}
]
}
}
]
}
}
}
'
```
However, when using a filtered query, the boosting works. But due to restrictions in my system I cannot use a filtered query. So is there any method to make the boosting in the original query work?
---
### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-has-no-effect-in-a-bool-filter-query/70891/2 "2017-01-08T23:51:05Z")
Boolean scores are either 1 (ie match) or 0 (no match), literally true or false. You cannot alter that.
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### Author:  [@muwnd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muwnd)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-has-no-effect-in-a-bool-filter-query/70891/3 "2017-01-09T08:22:11Z")
I found that with a filtered query it works. However, I'm restricted by the system to use only a MatchAll + Filter query. Is this still possible?
```
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/wiki_content/_search?pretty -d '
{
"_source": [
"title"
],
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"term": {
"title.keyword": {
"boost": 1,
"value": "Top Page"
}
}
},
{
"term": {
"title.keyword": {
"boost": 100,
"value": "Main Page"
}
}
},
{
"term": {
"title.keyword": {
"boost": 10,
"value": "Some Page"
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
}'
```
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-has-no-effect-in-a-bool-filter-query/70891/4 "2017-02-06T08:22:11Z")
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