# Exclude "in-progress" documents in search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-in-progress-documents-in-search/128094
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 16, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-in-progress-documents-in-search/128094 "2018-04-16T01:23:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mattkallo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkallo)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-in-progress-documents-in-search/128094/1 "2018-04-16T01:23:11Z")
Hi, Is there a way to mark a document "in-process" or to set it as "non-visible" to the search? Our requirement is do some post-processing after the document is indexed, however we don't want those document to appear in search results till the processing is complete.
We can do this by creating a field inside the document to maintain the status and applying a filter while querying. But wanted to check if ES itself provides any such feature at a higher level that we can utilize?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-in-progress-documents-in-search/128094/2 "2018-04-16T01:24:22Z")
Elasticsearch has no concept of this. Your best option would be to create your own field and then filter on that.
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### Author:  [@mattkallo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkallo)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-in-progress-documents-in-search/128094/3 "2018-04-16T02:18:22Z")
@warkolm Thanks for clarifying. Does updating a boolean field re-index the entire document? Is there a way to optimize that?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-in-progress-documents-in-search/128094/4 "2018-04-16T03:36:53Z")
Yes it does, no there's not.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-in-progress-documents-in-search/128094/5 "2018-05-14T03:37:23Z")
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