# Limit result from category based on result count from other category
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-result-from-category-based-on-result-count-from-other-category/60467
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 14, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-result-from-category-based-on-result-count-from-other-category/60467 "2016-09-14T08:18:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@habtim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/habtim)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-result-from-category-based-on-result-count-from-other-category/60467/1 "2016-09-14T08:18:51Z")
Hello everyone,
I have a pretty specific question for Elasticsearch and I currently don't know how to solve this.
For example I have two categories 1: Q&A - 2: articles, and when you search for a specific term the search page results will be flooded with Q&A, this is not what we want and we want to accomplish the following:
For each three articles we want to allow 1 Q&A.
So for example when we have 18 articles in the search we want to allow 6 Q&A results.
Anyone has any idea how to do this?
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### Author:  [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2016, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-result-from-category-based-on-result-count-from-other-category/60467/2 "2016-09-14T09:01:32Z")
As far as I know you can only have these hard limits with two searches, each filtered by one of the categories.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-result-from-category-based-on-result-count-from-other-category/60467/3 "2017-07-05T22:20:23Z")