# How do i sort before order with cardinalit aggs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-sort-before-order-with-cardinalit-aggs/109500>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-sort-before-order-with-cardinalit-aggs/109500 "2017-11-29T02:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![truongdqse03303](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/truongdqse03303/32/22605_2.png) [@truongdqse03303](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/truongdqse03303)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-sort-before-order-with-cardinalit-aggs/109500/1 "2017-11-29T02:48:52Z")

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Hi experts  
I have my query

```
{
	"query": {"term": { "content_level": "A" }}, 
	"aggs": {
		"author": {
			"terms": {"field": "author_name",
					"order": { "count.value" : "desc" },
					"size" : 10},
			"aggs": {
				"count": {
					"cardinality": {"field": "news_id"}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

```

The buckets result seem ok but my problem is if the Author dont have content\_level A, i cant show this author. So i want to update my query with sort by content\_level desc then do the cardinality aggresstion. How can i do it. I have try many ways but my buckets still get wrong result.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![truongdqse03303](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/truongdqse03303/32/22605_2.png) [@truongdqse03303](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/truongdqse03303)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-sort-before-order-with-cardinalit-aggs/109500/2 "2017-11-30T01:45:25Z")

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Anyone can help me solve this  
Thanks

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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:** [December 28, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-sort-before-order-with-cardinalit-aggs/109500/3 "2017-12-28T01:45:35Z")

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