# Get matching term **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 19, 2011, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-matching-term/4894 "2011-07-19T08:03:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pau/32/3168_2.png) [@Pau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pau)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-matching-term/4894/1 "2011-07-19T08:03:54Z")
Hi! I have a document that have some tags for instance. {name: 'foo', tags: ['black', 'green', 'yellow', 'saturday night fever']} The tags are not known, a user can insert anything. I want to provide autocompletion so users can reuse tags already used by others. To do so I do a prefix query. I would love if the query could also return the original term that matched the query. In the example above, if I search for 'satur' I would like to get 'saturday night fever' tag instead of the whole document. Is there any way to achieve that? Thank's in advance! ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-matching-term/4894/2 "2011-07-19T21:41:18Z")
There isn't a way to do it, unless you create an autocomplete index with tags as documents, or maybe do the matching yourself on the client side (if its a prefix based one, its simple). On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Pau [masylum@gmail.com](mailto:masylum@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi! > > I have a document that have some tags for instance. > > {name: 'foo', tags: ['black', 'green', 'yellow', 'saturday night > fever']} > > The tags are not known, a user can insert anything. > > I want to provide autocompletion so users can reuse tags already used > by others. To do so I do a prefix query. > > I would love if the query could also return the original term that > matched the query. In the example above, if I search for 'satur' I > would like to get 'saturday night fever' tag instead of the whole > document. > > Is there any way to achieve that? > > Thank's in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Pau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pau/32/3168_2.png) [@Pau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pau)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-matching-term/4894/3 "2011-07-19T22:32:54Z")
I´m currently doing it client side but it feels kind of "hackish". I would probably store the tags in a different index as you said. 🙂 On Jul 19, 11:41 pm, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > There isn't a way to do it, unless you create an autocomplete index with > tags as documents, or maybe do the matching yourself on the client side (if > its a prefix based one, its simple). > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Pau [masy...@gmail.com](mailto:masy...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I have a document that have some tags for instance. > > > {name: 'foo', tags: ['black', 'green', 'yellow', 'saturday night > > fever']} > > > The tags are not known, a user can insert anything. > > > I want to provide autocompletion so users can reuse tags already used > > by others. To do so I do a prefix query. > > > I would love if the query could also return the original term that > > matched the query. In the example above, if I search for 'satur' I > > would like to get 'saturday night fever' tag instead of the whole > > document. > > > Is there any way to achieve that? > > > Thank's in advance! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-matching-term/4894/4 "2017-07-06T04:00:05Z")