# How to filter options from a field selected
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-options-from-a-field-selected/304480
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 11, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-options-from-a-field-selected/304480 "2022-05-11T15:17:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Srikanth\_V](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srikanth_V)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-options-from-a-field-selected/304480/1 "2022-05-11T15:17:19Z")
Hello,
Is there a possibility to filter values from the field that has been selected? For example, my field A has 20 options.
Scenario 1 -
a) I want my field A to show only the necessary values - 8 of them
Scenario 2 -
b) I want to show the remaining 12 options.
Please let me know if there is a possibility for this? Any sort of help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Srikanth
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### Author:  [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-options-from-a-field-selected/304480/2 "2022-05-11T17:17:56Z")
Hi.
Let me understand.
You have a field, ex: array, and when you search for the term in this array, do you want only one element of the array in the return, not the whole document?
Ex: Doc
```auto
"gender" : [
"Action",
"Crime",
"Thriller"
]
```
Search by action then return
```auto
"gender" : [
"Action"
]
```
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### Author:  [@Srikanth\_V](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srikanth_V)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-options-from-a-field-selected/304480/3 "2022-05-12T07:17:14Z")
Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Here is what my requirement is -
1. I select the field in kibana - say x.keyword which has 20 options and I have 2 conditions, based on my filter on organization(2 items are available), I want to show either 8 options or 12 options.
Regards,
Srikanth
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### Author:  [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-options-from-a-field-selected/304480/4 "2022-05-12T12:41:56Z")
Show your query so I can understand better.
Am I understanding that your field is an array, or am I wrong?
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### Author:  [@Srikanth\_V](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srikanth_V)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-options-from-a-field-selected/304480/5 "2022-05-31T12:23:53Z")
We found an alternative in the backend and it's taken care now 🙂 Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-options-from-a-field-selected/304480/6 "2022-06-28T12:24:36Z")
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