# Ignore\_above behavior

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-above-behavior/97445>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 17, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-above-behavior/97445 "2017-08-17T15:00:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maxwell\_Flanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Maxwell\_Flanders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maxwell_Flanders)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-above-behavior/97445/1 "2017-08-17T15:00:33Z")

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in the 2.3 documentation for ignore\_above, it says `Strings longer than the ignore_above setting will not be processed by the analyzer and will not be indexed.`

in the 5.0+ documentation, it says `Strings longer than the ignore_above setting will not be indexed or stored.`

I understand that it should not be searchable, but does "OR STORED" mean that even if I retrieve the field via id, It will no longer contain the field with the large data??

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ywelsch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ywelsch/32/7751_2.png) [@ywelsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywelsch)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-above-behavior/97445/2 "2017-08-18T06:10:40Z")

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The term "stored" applies to Lucene "stored" fields, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-store.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-store.html)

The field value will be retrievable from the \_source field, which is stored by default. This means that if you retrieve the document by id, you will get the field value, independent of the `ignore_above` setting.

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**Author:** ![Maxwell\_Flanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Maxwell\_Flanders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maxwell_Flanders)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-above-behavior/97445/3 "2017-08-22T18:58:11Z")

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Thank you!

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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:** [September 19, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-above-behavior/97445/4 "2017-09-19T18:58:22Z")

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