# Make fields not searchable in mapping
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-fields-not-searchable-in-mapping/11121
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 13, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-fields-not-searchable-in-mapping/11121 "2013-03-13T02:22:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@extravio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/extravio)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-fields-not-searchable-in-mapping/11121/1 "2013-03-13T02:22:43Z")
Hi,
Let's say I have a list of items and categories.
1: name: BLUE DUCK, category: BLUE
2: name: RED DUCK, category: RED
3: name: DAFFY, category: DUCK
I want to index the items' names and categories but I don't want the "category" to be searchable, as it would not return anything relevant.
So if I search for DUCK, the result will be BLUE DUCK (BLUE) + RED DUCK (RED), but DAFFY will not be included. Then I'd like to be able to use the category in a facet to filter blue or red.
Is there a way to configure that in the mapping?
My real-life case scenario is obviously more complicated and I can't just specify "name:DUCK" in the query string.
How can I solve that problem?
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2013, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-fields-not-searchable-in-mapping/11121/2 "2013-03-14T10:52:01Z")
Hey,
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check the "index" attribute, if you want to configure a field not to be
searchable at all via mapping. There might be different solutions
preventing fields from being searchable, as usual it depends on your
concrete use case.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:22 AM, extravio [mikaelmr@gmail.com](mailto:mikaelmr@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> Let's say I have a list of items and categories.
> 1: name: BLUE DUCK, category: BLUE
> 2: name: RED DUCK, category: RED
> 3: name: DAFFY, category: DUCK
> I want to index the items' names and categories but I don't want the
> "category" to be searchable, as it would not return anything relevant.
> So if I search for DUCK, the result will be BLUE DUCK (BLUE) + RED DUCK
> (RED), but DAFFY will not be included. Then I'd like to be able to use the
> category in a facet to filter blue or red.
>
> Is there a way to configure that in the mapping?
> My real-life case scenario is obviously more complicated and I can't just
> specify "name:DUCK" in the query string.
> How can I solve that problem?
> Cheers.
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-fields-not-searchable-in-mapping/11121/3 "2017-07-06T02:46:30Z")