# How to correctly store documents with page numbers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 12, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-correctly-store-documents-with-page-numbers/7305 "2012-04-12T10:08:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vitaly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/838e76/32.png) [@Vitaly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vitaly)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-correctly-store-documents-with-page-numbers/7305/1 "2012-04-12T10:08:41Z")
Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me with one issue. What would be the best way to store document in a way that I could get original document page number from elastic search? What happens now is I store page number as field name in elastic search. Everything works well, except one issue: highlighting. As you know in order for highlighting to work, you have to supply field name, and in my case I'm not sure on which page the result will be -\> no way to supply field name. So quickly what I'm trying to achieve: I need to store document in elastic search, get corresponding page number in results and have search hits highlighted. Cheers, Vitaly ---
**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-correctly-store-documents-with-page-numbers/7305/2 "2012-04-12T10:39:44Z")
Hi, not sure I fully understand where is your problem. Do you think you can share more info about how you model your domain objects? For example: you break the book by pages and index each page as a separated document into ES? Regards, Lukas On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Vitaly [vshestovskiy@gmail.com](mailto:vshestovskiy@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if someone could help me with one issue. What would be > the best way to store document in a way that I could get original > document page number from Elasticsearch? What happens now is I store > page number as field name in Elasticsearch. Everything works well, > except one issue: highlighting. As you know in order for highlighting > to work, you have to supply field name, and in my case I'm not sure on > which page the result will be -\> no way to supply field name. > > So quickly what I'm trying to achieve: > > I need to store document in Elasticsearch, get corresponding page > number in results and have search hits highlighted. > > Cheers, > Vitaly ---
**Author:** ![Vitaly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/838e76/32.png) [@Vitaly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vitaly)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-correctly-store-documents-with-page-numbers/7305/3 "2012-04-12T10:54:41Z")
Hi Lukas, Right now I create new document in Elasticsearch for each book, and then store separate pages in the document, with page number as field name. Something like this: { "\_index" : "data", "\_type" : "documents", "\_id" : "1", "\_source" : { "title" : "Document name", "1" : "Page 1 data", "2" : "Page 2 data" } } Cheers, Vitaly On Apr 12, 1:39 pm, Lukáš Vlček [lukas.vl...@gmail.com](mailto:lukas.vl...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > not sure I fully understand where is your problem. Do you think you can > share more info about how you model your domain objects? For example: you > break the book by pages and index each page as a separated document into ES? > > Regards, > Lukas > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Vitaly [vshestovs...@gmail.com](mailto:vshestovs...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I was wondering if someone could help me with one issue. What would be > > the best way to store document in a way that I could get original > > document page number from Elasticsearch? What happens now is I store > > page number as field name in Elasticsearch. Everything works well, > > except one issue: highlighting. As you know in order for highlighting > > to work, you have to supply field name, and in my case I'm not sure on > > which page the result will be -\> no way to supply field name. > > > So quickly what I'm trying to achieve: > > > I need to store document in Elasticsearch, get corresponding page > > number in results and have search hits highlighted. > > > Cheers, > > Vitaly ---
**Author:** ![chenguohui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@chenguohui](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenguohui)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-correctly-store-documents-with-page-numbers/7305/4 "2012-04-12T13:22:26Z")
Hi Vitaly Why not separate it? One page per doc in es. { "\_index" : "data", "\_type" : "documents", "\_id" : "1", "\_source" : { "title" : "Document name", "content" : "Page 1 data", "pageNum" : 1 } } ---
**Author:** ![Vitaly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/838e76/32.png) [@Vitaly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vitaly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-correctly-store-documents-with-page-numbers/7305/5 "2012-04-13T13:54:21Z")
But in that case I will get results weighted by page, not by document, no? On Apr 12, 4:22 pm, chenguohui [trgo...@gmail.com](mailto:trgo...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi Vitaly > Why not separate it? One page per doc in es. > { > "\_index" : "data", > "\_type" : "documents", > "\_id" : "1", > "\_source" : { > "title" : "Document name", > "content" : "Page 1 data", > "pageNum" : 1 > } > > } ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-correctly-store-documents-with-page-numbers/7305/6 "2012-04-13T16:31:41Z")
What about using parent/chlid feature : Parent is the document Children are pages Not sure that it will help 😉 David. > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [elasticsearch@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch@googlegroups.com) > [[mailto:elasticsearch@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch@googlegroups.com)] De la part de Vitaly > Envoyé : vendredi 13 avril 2012 15:54 > À : elasticsearch > Objet : Re: How to correctly store documents with page numbers? > > But in that case I will get results weighted by page, not by document, > no? > > On Apr 12, 4:22 pm, chenguohui [trgo...@gmail.com](mailto:trgo...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi Vitaly > > Why not separate it? One page per doc in es. > > { > > "\_index" : "data", > > "\_type" : "documents", > > "\_id" : "1", > > "\_source" : { > > "title" : "Document name", > > "content" : "Page 1 data", > > "pageNum" : 1 > > } > > > > } ---
**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, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-correctly-store-documents-with-page-numbers/7305/7 "2017-07-06T03:32:39Z")