# Highlight based on a field
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-based-on-a-field/10250
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 7, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-based-on-a-field/10250 "2013-01-07T12:06:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@vineeth\_mohan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-based-on-a-field/10250/1 "2013-01-07T12:06:28Z")
Hi ,
Following is a sample feed i have.
_Feed - 1_
{
"entity" : "YHOO",
"Content" : "Its a great day at yahoo (YHOO) today"
}
_Feed - 2_
{
"entity" : "GOOG",
"Content" : "Google(GOOG) is going to launch g+"
}
Now i want the highlighting output as
"Its a great day at yahoo (_YHOO_) today"
"Google(_GOOG_) is going to launch g+"
I want to highlight based on the field "entity" rather than a predefined
like YHOO where the latter will fail to give the output i am looking for.
Is this possible in elasticsearch ?
Thanks
Vineeth
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### Author:  [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-based-on-a-field/10250/2 "2013-01-08T03:33:20Z")
If text that should be highlighted is stored with the record, wouldn't it
be faster and simpler to highlight text during indexing?
On Monday, January 7, 2013 7:06:28 AM UTC-5, Vineeth Mohan wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Following is a sample feed i have.
>
> _Feed - 1_
> {
> "entity" : "YHOO",
> "Content" : "Its a great day at yahoo (YHOO) today"
> }
>
> _Feed - 2_
> {
> "entity" : "GOOG",
> "Content" : "Google(GOOG) is going to launch g+"
> }
>
> Now i want the highlighting output as
>
> "Its a great day at yahoo (_YHOO_) today"
> "Google(_GOOG_) is going to launch g+"
>
> I want to highlight based on the field "entity" rather than a predefined
> like YHOO where the latter will fail to give the output i am looking for.
> Is this possible in elasticsearch ?
>
> Thanks
> Vineeth
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### Author:  [@vineeth\_mohan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-based-on-a-field/10250/3 "2013-01-08T03:49:20Z")
That is a good suggetion , let me see where i can reach by that.
Thanks
Vineeth
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Igor Motov [imotov@gmail.com](mailto:imotov@gmail.com) wrote:
> If text that should be highlighted is stored with the record, wouldn't it
> be faster and simpler to highlight text during indexing?
>
> On Monday, January 7, 2013 7:06:28 AM UTC-5, Vineeth Mohan wrote:
>
> > Hi ,
> >
> > Following is a sample feed i have.
> >
> > _Feed - 1_
> > {
> > "entity" : "YHOO",
> > "Content" : "Its a great day at yahoo (YHOO) today"
> > }
> >
> > _Feed - 2_
> > {
> > "entity" : "GOOG",
> > "Content" : "Google(GOOG) is going to launch g+"
> > }
> >
> > Now i want the highlighting output as
> >
> > "Its a great day at yahoo (_YHOO_) today"
> > "Google(_GOOG_) is going to launch g+"
> >
> > I want to highlight based on the field "entity" rather than a predefined
> > like YHOO where the latter will fail to give the output i am looking for.
> > Is this possible in elasticsearch ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vineeth
> >
> > --
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### Author:  [@vineeth\_mohan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-based-on-a-field/10250/4 "2013-01-08T03:52:57Z")
oops forgot to tell a important point.
Say i am tagging all the stuff i need to highlight while indexing , how am
i supposed to get the highlighted text while searching.
I will have to write a highlighter for myself by taking the entire source.
Thanks
Vineeth
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Vineeth Mohan [vineethmohan@algotree.com](mailto:vineethmohan@algotree.com)wrote:
> That is a good suggetion , let me see where i can reach by that.
>
> Thanks
> Vineeth
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Igor Motov [imotov@gmail.com](mailto:imotov@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > If text that should be highlighted is stored with the record, wouldn't it
> > be faster and simpler to highlight text during indexing?
> >
> > On Monday, January 7, 2013 7:06:28 AM UTC-5, Vineeth Mohan wrote:
> >
> > > Hi ,
> > >
> > > Following is a sample feed i have.
> > >
> > > _Feed - 1_
> > > {
> > > "entity" : "YHOO",
> > > "Content" : "Its a great day at yahoo (YHOO) today"
> > > }
> > >
> > > _Feed - 2_
> > > {
> > > "entity" : "GOOG",
> > > "Content" : "Google(GOOG) is going to launch g+"
> > > }
> > >
> > > Now i want the highlighting output as
> > >
> > > "Its a great day at yahoo (_YHOO_) today"
> > > "Google(_GOOG_) is going to launch g+"
> > >
> > > I want to highlight based on the field "entity" rather than a predefined
> > > like YHOO where the latter will fail to give the output i am looking for.
> > > Is this possible in elasticsearch ?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Vineeth
> > >
> > > --
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-based-on-a-field/10250/5 "2017-07-06T02:57:27Z")