# Is it possible to provide conditional "highlighting"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-provide-conditional-highlighting/100935>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 18, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-provide-conditional-highlighting/100935 "2017-09-18T21:24:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jaspreet\_Singh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaspreet_singh/32/58296_2.png) [@Jaspreet\_Singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jaspreet_Singh)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-provide-conditional-highlighting/100935/1 "2017-09-18T21:24:28Z")

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Some search results that we send back are confidential, hence we need to block highlighting of search terms. So based based on a field "type", a result should either have a highlight or not.

What is the best way to implement this?

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**Author:** ![Jaspreet\_Singh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaspreet_singh/32/58296_2.png) [@Jaspreet\_Singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jaspreet_Singh)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-provide-conditional-highlighting/100935/2 "2017-09-20T19:38:56Z")

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Thoughts anyone?

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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:** [October 18, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-provide-conditional-highlighting/100935/3 "2017-10-18T19:39:19Z")

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