# Is sorting on Text/String field no longer available in 5.x?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-sorting-on-text-string-field-no-longer-available-in-5-x/68586
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 9, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-sorting-on-text-string-field-no-longer-available-in-5-x/68586 "2016-12-09T16:21:41Z")
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### Author: ![juminoz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juminoz/32/13110_2.png) [@juminoz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/juminoz)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-sorting-on-text-string-field-no-longer-available-in-5-x/68586/7 "2016-12-10T00:12:32Z")

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I thought there is no longer type "string" in 5.x? That's why I changed it to "text". So to make it work, I need to continue using string? That doesn't sound right.

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