# Cannot search tags with multi\_match phrase \[ElasticSearch 5.1.2\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 25, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748 "2017-01-25T09:48:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lorcom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@lorcom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lorcom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/1 "2017-01-25T09:48:21Z")
Hi to everybody, I have an index containing topics of a forum. I match the phrase (specified by users) with multi\_match in fields title, body and tags. Users can also "search any words" or "search the phrase"; if use "search any words" all works fine. If user choose "search the phrase" I use a multi\_match type "phrase" but the search failed. Into elasticsearch logs I found: > field "tags" was indexed without position data; cannot run PhraseQuery When I had created index I had used this mapping: "mappings" : { "topics" : { "date\_detection" : false, "dynamic\_templates" : [ { "generic\_not\_analyzed" : { "match" : ".+", "unmatch" : "(title)|(body)|(clean\_body)", "match\_pattern" : "regex", "mapping" : { "index": "not\_analyzed" } } } ], "properties" : { "created": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"}, "lastupdate": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"}, "ts\_author\_oldest\_post": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"}, "ts\_sort\_dashboard": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"}, "tags" : {"type" : "string", "index" : "not\_analyzed"}, "gallery": { "properties": { "approved": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"}, "thumbs\_update": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"} } }, "template": { "properties": { "approved": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"} } }, "posts" : { "type": "nested", "include\_in\_parent": true, "properties": { "submitted" : {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"}, "body" : {"type": "string", "analyzer": "answ\_html\_default"} } }, "followers" : { "type": "nested", "include\_in\_parent": true, "properties": { "id": {"type": "integer"}, "level": {"type": "string"}, "name": {"type": "string"}, "read": {"type": "boolean"}, "date\_read": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"}, "date\_follow": {"type": "date", "format": "dateTimeNoMillis"} } } } } } Someone can help me? ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/2 "2017-01-25T10:08:37Z")
> [@lorcom](#): > > the search failed. I suspect it is something to do with the tags field being "not\_analyzed" but I was unable to reproduce here. Can you share a problem query and maybe a doc with the irrelevant fields removed? ---
**Author:** ![lorcom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@lorcom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lorcom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/3 "2017-01-25T10:45:37Z")
I had tried to remove "not\_analyzed", but when logs wrote: > Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [tags] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/4 "2017-01-25T10:51:13Z")
Let's back up a little. Do you really need to perform phrase queries on a `tags` field? Would you ever need to search for docs where the order/proximity of tags in a doc are important? ---
**Author:** ![lorcom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@lorcom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lorcom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/5 "2017-01-25T13:48:45Z")
Tags in my documents are made by one or more words. Example: "error", "generic", "generic error" When user search "generic error" choosing "search the phrase", I want to find all douments with tags, title or body containing "generic error". After your consideration, since I was already using a custom analyzer, I tried to use another custom analyzer with a keyword tokenizer only used when use choose "search the phrase". But the results aren't as I expected, without errors. I'm thinking my ways are wrong... Have you got any idea? ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/6 "2017-01-25T13:57:26Z")
> [@lorcom](#): > > When user search "generic error" choosing "search the phrase", I want to find all douments with tags, title or body containing "generic error". And presumably if they search for "error" you also want to match docs tagged with "generic error"? ---
**Author:** ![lorcom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@lorcom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lorcom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/7 "2017-01-25T13:58:15Z")
Yes exactly ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/8 "2017-01-25T14:08:18Z")
So we are talking about support for free-text search, analyzers, phrase queries etc on this `tags` field. But also I expect you want to have a structured, "not analyzed" form of the tag for analytics e.g. bar charts in Kibana. These 2 goals are achieved by defining the mapping of the `tags` field to support both operations using separate logical fields in the index. An example of search and analytics below: ``` DELETE test PUT test { "settings": { "index": { "number_of_shards": 1 } }, "mappings": { "log": { "properties": { "tags": { "type": "keyword", "fields":{ "4search":{ "type":"text" } } } } } } } POST test/log { "tags":["generic error"] } GET test/log/_search { "query": { "multi_match": { "query": " error", "fields": ["tags.4search"] } } } GET test/log/_search { "query": { "multi_match": { "query": "generic error", "fields": ["tags.4search"], "type":"phrase" } } } GET test/log/_search { "aggs": { "tagTypes": { "terms": { "field": "tags" } } } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![lorcom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@lorcom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lorcom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/9 "2017-01-25T14:24:49Z")
Thank you very much!!! I implement it immediately. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-search-tags-with-multi-match-phrase-elasticsearch-5-1-2/72748/10 "2017-02-22T14:25:28Z")
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