# Can I have only filter context query?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-have-only-filter-context-query/157047
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 16, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-have-only-filter-context-query/157047 "2018-11-16T11:50:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Nedko\_Georgiev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nedko_Georgiev)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-have-only-filter-context-query/157047/1 "2018-11-16T11:50:47Z")
Can I create a query with only filter context in it, without any query context or do I always have to have some query context in addition to the filter?
In addition I'd like it to be nested, but let me know if I can have filter without nested as well if combination of filter and nested is not possible.
May be use filtered?
The idea is that I don't need scoring, just a quick filter over the documents.
An example would for the query itself would be something like this:
```auto
{
"query": {
"nested": {
"path": "properties",
"filter": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"properties.key": "propertyName"
}
},
{
"term": {
"properties.value": "propertyValue"
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
}
```
The above doesn't work, while the one below does work:
```auto
{
"query": {
"nested": {
"path": "properties",
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match": {
"properties.key": "propertyName"
}
},
{
"match": {
"properties.value": "propertyValue"
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
}
```
---
### Author:  [@byronvoorbach](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/byronvoorbach)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-have-only-filter-context-query/157047/2 "2018-11-16T12:47:02Z")
```
{
"query": {
"nested": {
"path": "properties",
"query": {
"bool": {
"filter": [
{
"term": {
"properties.key": {
"value": "VALUE"
}
}
},
{
"term": {
"properties.value": {
"value": "VALUE"
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
}
```
Change MUST to FILTER and replace your match query with term filters. Keep in mind that it matters how your data is analyzed:
> The `term` query finds documents that contain the **exact** term specified in the inverted index.
[Link](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/query-dsl-term-query.html)
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### Author:  [@Nedko\_Georgiev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nedko_Georgiev)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-have-only-filter-context-query/157047/3 "2018-11-20T13:25:45Z")
Thanks @byronvoorbach, that actually didn't work, but this is what worked for me:
The example below includes a filter by nested fields and an additional field
```auto
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"filter": [
{
"nested": {
"path": "properties",
"query": {
"bool": {
"filter": [
{
"match": {
"properties.key": "someKey"
}
},
{
"match": {
"properties.value": "someValue"
}
}
]
}
}
}
},
{
"match": {
"someField": "someFieldValue"
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@byronvoorbach](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/byronvoorbach)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-have-only-filter-context-query/157047/4 "2018-11-20T13:38:27Z")
Cool! Nice that you managed to work it out 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-have-only-filter-context-query/157047/5 "2018-12-18T13:38:31Z")
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