# How to know which documents in the search results include all of the tokens in the search query (for one particular field)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-which-documents-in-the-search-results-include-all-of-the-tokens-in-the-search-query-for-one-particular-field/237639
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 18, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-which-documents-in-the-search-results-include-all-of-the-tokens-in-the-search-query-for-one-particular-field/237639 "2020-06-18T13:06:06Z")
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### Author:  [@swafa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swafa)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-which-documents-in-the-search-results-include-all-of-the-tokens-in-the-search-query-for-one-particular-field/237639/1 "2020-06-18T13:06:06Z")
We are trying to find out which documents in our search results include all the tokens in our search query. For example when running the following query:
```auto
GET /test/_search
{
"query" : {
"match" : { "message" : { "query": "the brown fox" } }
}
}
```
We would need a response like this (only the hits array is included with minimal fields for brevity):
```auto
"hits" : [
{
**"all_tokens_match": true** ,
"_source" : {
"message" : "The Quick Brown Fox"
}
},
{
**"all_tokens_match": false** ,
"_source" : {
"message" : "The Brown Bear"
}
}
]
```
How would you recommend we approach this kind of problem on Elasticsearch? We were looking into scripting but our field is usually indexed as a "text" and not as a "keyword" field and there seems to be some limitations with scripting in that case. In case you recommend scripting, we would be grateful for a snippet to guide us in the right direction. Thank you in advance for your support.
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### Author:  [@mayya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mayya)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-which-documents-in-the-search-results-include-all-of-the-tokens-in-the-search-query-for-one-particular-field/237639/2 "2020-06-18T21:07:59Z")
Check if [named queries](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-body.html#request-body-search-queries-and-filters) will help your problem.
If you use named queries, you would need to break your tokens into distinct queries, something like this:
```auto
GET /_search
{
"query": {
"bool" : {
"should" : [
{"match" : { "message" : {"query" : "the", "_name" : "my_query1"} }},
{"match" : { "message" : {"query" : "brown", "_name" : "my_query2"} }},
{"match" : { "message" : {"query" : "fox", "_name" : "my_query3"} }}
]
}
}
}
```
as a result you will get the following:
```auto
"hits" : [
{
"_index" : "my_index",
....
"_source" : {
"message" : "The Quick Brown Fox"
},
"matched_queries" : [
"my_quer1",
"my_query2",
"my_query3"
]
},
{
"_index" : "my_index",
...
"_source" : {
"message" : "The Brown Bear"
},
"matched_queries" : [
"my_query1",
"my_query2"
]
},
```
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### Author:  [@swafa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swafa)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-which-documents-in-the-search-results-include-all-of-the-tokens-in-the-search-query-for-one-particular-field/237639/3 "2020-06-23T12:37:46Z")
Thank you @mayya for guiding us in the right direction of named queries. It helped us tackle our problem after we combined named queries with the "minimum\_should\_match" parameter and set "boost": 0 to avoid it affecting the score of our main query.
We did it like this:
```auto
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"message": {
"query": "the brown fox",
"_name": "main_query"
}
}
},
{
"match": {
"message": {
"query": "the brown fox",
"_name": "all_tokens_match",
"minimum_should_match": "100%",
"boost": 0
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
So we receive a response like this:
```auto
{
"hits": [
{
"_score": 0.99938476,
"_source": {
"message": "The Quick Brown Fox"
},
"matched_queries": [
"main_query",
"all_tokens_match"
]
},
{
"_score": 0.38727614,
"_source": {
"message": "The Brown Bear"
},
"matched_queries": [
"main_query"
]
}
]
}
```
Documents that all tokens in our query match now have **all\_tokens\_match** included in the **matched\_queries** part of the response.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-which-documents-in-the-search-results-include-all-of-the-tokens-in-the-search-query-for-one-particular-field/237639/4 "2020-07-21T12:38:04Z")
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