# Error when combining queries using bool

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-combining-queries-using-bool/120798>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 21, 2018, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-combining-queries-using-bool/120798 "2018-02-21T09:33:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tgangte](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tgangte/32/27979_2.png) [@tgangte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tgangte)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-combining-queries-using-bool/120798/1 "2018-02-21T09:33:02Z")

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```
myindex/_search?scroll=10m
    {
      "size": 5000,
      "query" :
          "bool": {
              "must": [
             { "query_string" : { "query":" name:bob " } },
             {
                  "range":{
                       "@timestamp":{
                           "gte": 1519015696225,
                           "lte": 1519030096225
                       }
                   }
             }
                       ]
          }
    }

```

`{u'status': 400, u'error': {u'line': 4, u'root_cause': [{u'reason': u'Unknown key for a VALUE_STRING in [query].', u'type': u'parsing_exception', u'line': 4, u'col': 7}], u'type': u'parsing_exception', u'reason': u'Unknown key for a VALUE_STRING in [query].', u'col': 7}}`

What am I doing wrong?

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**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:** [February 21, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-combining-queries-using-bool/120798/2 "2018-02-21T09:36:14Z")

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Invalid JSON. Try [https://jsonlint.com/](https://jsonlint.com/)

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**Author:** ![tgangte](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tgangte/32/27979_2.png) [@tgangte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tgangte)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-combining-queries-using-bool/120798/3 "2018-02-21T09:45:47Z")

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Thanks for the quick reply Mark!

Yes I made a typo and missed out a bracket. It works now!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-combining-queries-using-bool/120798/4 "2018-03-21T09:45:51Z")

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