# May I search among some fields, but use another field's matching score for sorting?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-search-among-some-fields-but-use-another-fields-matching-score-for-sorting/1308
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 26, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-search-among-some-fields-but-use-another-fields-matching-score-for-sorting/1308 "2015-05-26T11:45:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jffifa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jffifa)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-search-among-some-fields-but-use-another-fields-matching-score-for-sorting/1308/1 "2015-05-26T11:45:09Z")
I have some documents like this
```
{"id":1,"city":"London","content":"soccer","continent":"Europe"},
{"id":2,"city":"New York","content":"basketball","continent":"North America"},
{"id":3,"city":"Tokyo","content":"baseball","continent":"Asia"},
...
```
I need to search keywords among some fields(excluding `city` field), e.g. a query like
```
{"query":{"bool":{
"should":[ //SHOULD_CLAUSE
"match":{"continent":"America"},
"term":{"content":"soccer"}
]
}}}
```
To make the results more "personalized", I want to make matched documents whose `city` field is the same as the visiting user's `city` property.
However, if I make `city` as a query field(something like `"match":{"city":"Tokyo"}`) in `should` boolean clause, it may return some documents that only match the `city` field, which mismatch the fields I need to search. When using `boost` to make `city` field more "important" for sorting things goes worse.
How can I achieve my goal?
It seems that a possible way write the `SHOULD_CLAUSE` part twice and make one of it combined with `city` clause using `and`
```
{"query":{"bool":{
"should":[
{"bool":{"must":[
{"bool":{SHOULD_CLAUSE}},
{"match":{"city":{"query":"Tokyo","boost":4.0}}}
]}},
{"bool":{SHOULD_CLAUSE}}
]
}}}
```
But under the real circumstance the `SHOULD_CLAUSE` part may be more complicated and the whole query seems too long to write. I wonder if there is a better way.
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### Author:  [@Camilo\_Sierra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Camilo_Sierra)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-search-among-some-fields-but-use-another-fields-matching-score-for-sorting/1308/2 "2015-05-26T12:55:27Z")
are you already test to use [minimum-should-match](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-minimum-should-match.html) ?
you can show us your query and the mapping for your index ?
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### Author:  [@jffifa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jffifa)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-search-among-some-fields-but-use-another-fields-matching-score-for-sorting/1308/3 "2015-05-26T16:51:28Z")
Hi Sierra,
I've edited my question, adding some samples to make it more clear to unserstand.
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-search-among-some-fields-but-use-another-fields-matching-score-for-sorting/1308/4 "2015-05-26T17:05:08Z")
You can make a query's score not count by wrapping it in a constant score query or a filter like a query\_filter. Maybe you can just wrap the bits you don't want to score in one of those?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-search-among-some-fields-but-use-another-fields-matching-score-for-sorting/1308/5 "2017-07-06T00:11:50Z")