# Force document on top
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-document-on-top/29702
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-document-on-top/29702 "2015-09-21T13:18:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Linus\_Pettersson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Linus_Pettersson)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-document-on-top/29702/1 "2015-09-21T13:18:44Z")
Hi!
I would like to put some items first in my search results. Let me explain by giving an example.
Example:
Let's say I have a forum with pinned items. The pinned items has an order.
Now, when I search, I would like to force these pinned items to always appear on the top, in the correct order.
- Pinned #1
- Pinned #2
- Search result #1
- Search result #2
...
Is it possible to do something like this in ES?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-document-on-top/29702/2 "2015-09-21T13:33:47Z")
If you have a pinned field, you can sort by it then by \_score.
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### Author:  [@Linus\_Pettersson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Linus_Pettersson)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-document-on-top/29702/3 "2015-09-21T13:45:09Z")
We don't know if it is pinned until runtime so we cannot index it... It depends on the user :-/
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-document-on-top/29702/4 "2015-09-21T14:08:25Z")
I think I'd deal with that on the client side.
Maintain a list of pinned docs there...
Or if you know their \_ids, write a function\_score query which gives a high score for a \_ids filter.
That might work.
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### Author:  [@Linus\_Pettersson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Linus_Pettersson)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-document-on-top/29702/5 "2015-09-21T14:30:11Z")
Thank you for your answers.
Yes, I could handle it on the client side but it would be nice to have it in the ES query. It makes pagination and so on a bit easier.
I know the items when I perform the query so I guess I can boost them a lot to push them to the top. I just have to make sure they end up in the correct order.
I just wanted to check if there was a better way to do it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-document-on-top/29702/6 "2017-07-05T23:49:03Z")