# How to filter/limit term or phrase suggester by a specific field?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-limit-term-or-phrase-suggester-by-a-specific-field/99215
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 3, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-limit-term-or-phrase-suggester-by-a-specific-field/99215 "2017-09-03T08:18:53Z")
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### Author:  [@ali.gholami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ali.gholami)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-limit-term-or-phrase-suggester-by-a-specific-field/99215/1 "2017-09-03T08:18:53Z")
Hi,
I'm using elastic search 5.3 and to provide did-you-mean functionality, I want to limit the context of term or phrase suggester to _only user's documents_ not all the documents in the index. here's my current \_search query body (which returns suggestion based on all indexed documents):
```
{
"suggest": {
"text": "docyment",
"title_correction: {
"term": {
"size": 2,
"prefix_length": 3,
"field": "title",
"analyzer": "standard",
"min_doc_freq": 1,
}
}
}
}
```
I can see that filtering was part of phrase\_suggester in the past ([check this issue](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/3482)) but it seems that it has been deprecated and replaced by context suggester (only for completion fields though), so it's not suitable for my case.
What I need is to have a filter like: `"filter": {"term": {"user_id": 12345}}` so suggestions will be based on user's documents.
I would appreciate it if anyone could come up with answers to my questions :
0- why the filter has been deprecated from phrase suggester? only to boost up performance?
1- if it has been replaced by something else and there's recommended way to do it, so I can solve my issue?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-limit-term-or-phrase-suggester-by-a-specific-field/99215/2 "2017-10-01T08:22:35Z")
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