# Forward Slash in Filter Term \[ES 5.6\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forward-slash-in-filter-term-es-5-6/117721>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 30, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forward-slash-in-filter-term-es-5-6/117721 "2018-01-30T23:57:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derekbrenner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/derekbrenner/32/27157_2.png) [@Derekbrenner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Derekbrenner)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forward-slash-in-filter-term-es-5-6/117721/1 "2018-01-30T23:57:56Z")

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When using a forward slash in a term for a filter, I am not getting any documents returned even tho the term is an exact match.

```
GET datums/datum/_search
{
  "_source": [
    "Uuid",
    "TransportType",
  ],
	"query": {
		"bool": { "filter":[
                 {"terms":{"TransportType":["video/zoom"] } }
		]}
	},
	"from": 1,
	"size": 10
}

```

When the forward slash is removed all documents with TransportType = "video/zoom" are returned. I have tryed to use a backslash or two to escape the caracter with no luck. Any help would be appriciated.

Here is the mapping of the transport type.

```
"TransportType": {
    "type": "text",
    "fields": {
        "keyword": {
            "type": "keyword",
            "ignore_above": 256
        }
    }
}
```

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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:** [February 27, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forward-slash-in-filter-term-es-5-6/117721/2 "2018-02-27T23:58:19Z")

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