# How to specify Field weights
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-field-weights/5279
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 30, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-field-weights/5279 "2011-08-30T10:21:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Raul\_Jr\_Martinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raul_Jr_Martinez)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-field-weights/5279/1 "2011-08-30T10:21:43Z")
Hello to all,
I've been looking into putting weight on a select number of fields for my
project. I thought that doing _fieldname^weight_ would work but it doesn't
unfortunately. I know I read somewhere that using caret would do the
tricky.
My main goal is to ensure that the relevancy algorithm would consider
putting a lot of weight in keywords matching the _title_ than the \*contents
- fields.
Has anybody solved what I'm trying to do?
Thanks,
Raul
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2011, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-field-weights/5279/2 "2011-08-30T10:48:37Z")
Hi Raul
> I've been looking into putting weight on a select number of fields for
> my project. I thought that doing fieldname^weight would work but it
> doesn't unfortunately. I know I read somewhere that using caret would
> do the tricky.
>
> My main goal is to ensure that the relevancy algorithm would consider
> putting a lot of weight in keywords matching the title than the
> contents fields.
You can combine queries with the bool or dismax query, and give each
query different weights, eg:
curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/\_all/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/_all/_search?pretty=1)' -d '
{
"query" : {
"dis\_max" : {
"queries" : [
{
"text" : {
"title" : {
"boost" : 2,
"query" : "keywords"
}
}
},
{
"text" : {
"content" : "keywords"
}
}
]
}
}
}
'
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### Author:  [@Raul\_Jr\_Martinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raul_Jr_Martinez)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-field-weights/5279/3 "2011-08-31T04:45:19Z")
Hi Clinton,
Thanks for the insight. I am using FuzzyLikeThis query so fields are defined
as a group so the structure is a bit different. Having said, my initial
strategy is to set the boost value of a field when defining the mapping. It
seems to work just fine. I'm just looking for ways to set field weight at
query-time for FLT queries specifically.
Thanks,
RAUL
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2011, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-field-weights/5279/4 "2011-08-31T07:38:53Z")
Hi raul
> Thanks for the insight. I am using FuzzyLikeThis query so fields are
> defined as a group so the structure is a bit different. Having said,
> my initial strategy is to set the boost value of a field when defining
> the mapping. It seems to work just fine. I'm just looking for ways to
> set field weight at query-time for FLT queries specifically.
With the fuzzy-like-this query, you specify a list of fields, and you
can specify the boost for each field as follows:
['title^3','tags^2', 'content']
clint
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### Author:  [@Ciryus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ciryus)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-field-weights/5279/5 "2011-12-02T02:17:52Z")
Hi,
I'm running into the same issue. I wanted to make a AND query with
different boosts for different fields. So let's say I'm searching across
fields 'title' and 'body' the words 'foo' 'bar' 'baz'. I only want to
return documents that have ALL words, but want to give a preference to the
title. So for example: foo & bar in title and baz in body gets a higher
score than only foo in title and bar & baz in body. But I don't want a
document that would not have ALL the terms. Any idea?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-field-weights/5279/6 "2017-07-06T03:46:38Z")