# How to reference a script field value in another script
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-a-script-field-value-in-another-script/37905
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 24, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-a-script-field-value-in-another-script/37905 "2015-12-24T03:54:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@zaza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zaza)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-a-script-field-value-in-another-script/37905/1 "2015-12-24T03:54:36Z")
I calculate a script field (a little performance-expensive) when search, an then I want to reference the script field value in a script sort. I seems elasticsearch not support it now, I can only reference the doc field value in a script sort.
Or I want to reference the script field value in a script\_score script, then at the sorting phase I just use the \_score value. But It seems I cant reference the script field value in a script\_score script too.
Is there some advice to achieve it?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2015, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-a-script-field-value-in-another-script/37905/2 "2015-12-24T05:46:26Z")
You can't do this unfortunately.
Can you take the results of script 1 and create a new field with it? Then you could reference it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-a-script-field-value-in-another-script/37905/3 "2017-07-05T23:28:56Z")