# Filter by field only if the field exists

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-by-field-only-if-the-field-exists/171219>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-by-field-only-if-the-field-exists/171219 "2019-03-07T02:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-by-field-only-if-the-field-exists/171219/2 "2019-03-07T03:59:29Z")

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It looks good. What is the result you can see?

It could be great to provide a full recreation script as described in [About the Elasticsearch category](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will help to better understand what you are doing. Please, try to keep the example as simple as possible as you did so far.

A full reproduction script will help readers to understand, reproduce and if needed fix your problem. It will also most likely help to get a faster answer.

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