# Filtering the bool query results by the score or getting results only from one query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-the-bool-query-results-by-the-score-or-getting-results-only-from-one-query/135491
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 12, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-the-bool-query-results-by-the-score-or-getting-results-only-from-one-query/135491 "2018-06-12T09:06:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@intern](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/intern)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-the-bool-query-results-by-the-score-or-getting-results-only-from-one-query/135491/1 "2018-06-12T09:06:16Z")
Let's say I got the below query, two match queries inside a should clause of a bool query.
I want to be able to conditionally select which queries inside my bool query are executed, I mean for example if the match query on the **name** field doesn't have results then don't bother executing the match query on the **category** field.
At least, is it possible to filter my results based on the score? I mean even if the second match query on the category field is executed, Would I be able to eliminate(filter) results coming from the second match query and keep only the results coming from the first?
```
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name": {
"query": "textToSearch",
"fuzziness": 1,
"boost": 20
}
}
},
{
"match": {
"category": {
"query": "textToSearch",
"fuzziness": 1,
"boost": 10
}
}
}
]
}
}
```
}
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### Author:  [@klof](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/klof)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-the-bool-query-results-by-the-score-or-getting-results-only-from-one-query/135491/2 "2018-06-13T06:56:46Z")
I don't know if this would fulfill your requirements, but another approach, would be to filter the second match clause (to get a constant\_score of 0). So the documents matching the should clause will get a score, and will appear on top.
```
POST index/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"filter": [
{
"match": {
"category": {
"query": "textToSearch",
"fuzziness": 1,
"boost": 10
}
}
}
],
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name": {
"query": "textToSearch",
"fuzziness": 1,
"boost": 20
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@intern](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/intern)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-the-bool-query-results-by-the-score-or-getting-results-only-from-one-query/135491/3 "2018-06-13T08:41:26Z")
@klof Thanks for your answer, However, actually I don't want the second query results to appear,even as the last results of docs, I would like to eliminate them if the first query don't have results. If the first query had results then it's okay to have the second query results
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### Author:  [@klof](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/klof)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-the-bool-query-results-by-the-score-or-getting-results-only-from-one-query/135491/4 "2018-06-13T10:40:28Z")
Yes I had this use case once, you should make it nested and use a must clause :
```
POST index/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match": {
"name": {
"query": "textToSearch",
"fuzziness": 1,
"boost": 20
}
}
},
{
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"category": {
"query": "textToSearch",
"fuzziness": 1,
"boost": 10
}
}
}
]
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@intern](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/intern)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-the-bool-query-results-by-the-score-or-getting-results-only-from-one-query/135491/5 "2018-06-13T11:55:16Z")
@klof I appreciate your answer, that's what I'm looking for
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-the-bool-query-results-by-the-score-or-getting-results-only-from-one-query/135491/6 "2018-07-11T11:55:17Z")
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