# How to treat sorting for string fields as not\_analyzed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-treat-sorting-for-string-fields-as-not-analyzed/22933>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 26, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-treat-sorting-for-string-fields-as-not-analyzed/22933 "2015-03-26T20:10:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulkitsinghal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pulkitsinghal/32/802_2.png) [@pulkitsinghal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pulkitsinghal)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-treat-sorting-for-string-fields-as-not-analyzed/22933/1 "2015-03-26T20:10:48Z")

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Only when performing a sort operation, I would like to treat a string field  
like  
{name: "first last"}

as not\_analyzed ... is this possible?

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**Author:** ![jpountz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jpountz/32/45836_2.png) [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-treat-sorting-for-string-fields-as-not-analyzed/22933/2 "2015-03-29T20:39:30Z")

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It is not possible. The common solution to this kind of issues is to index  
the field twice: once analyzed and once not\_analyzed. You can do it with  
multi fields

> **[fields | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/multi-fields.html)**

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:10 PM, pulkitsinghal [pulkitsinghal@gmail.com](mailto:pulkitsinghal@gmail.com)  
wrote:

> Only when performing a sort operation, I would like to treat a string  
> field like  
> {name: "first last"}
> 
> as not\_analyzed ... is this possible?
> 
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-treat-sorting-for-string-fields-as-not-analyzed/22933/3 "2017-07-06T00:23:10Z")

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