Is it possible to wildcard search AND highlight or name the matching query in the results?

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We have about a dozen fields we want to search with wildcards, but we need to know which fields have matched. I've used named queries and highlighting, but I don't believe those work with wildcard searches.

So, when searching for 'john' we want to match first name 'Johnny', last name 'Johnson', and email address 'john123@example.com' and show which of those fields match in each of the hits.

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I wonder if explain: true could help you?
Otherwise indeed named queries that you define within a bool query inside a should array would probably be better.

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Actually, I just discovered I can add the 'highlight' option to 'query_string' queries. The docs didn't indicate that, but it seems to work. That allow me to use wildcards and shows what fields matched.