# Multi-field + Completion type?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-completion-type/79478>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-completion-type/79478 "2017-03-21T17:41:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaddison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jaddison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaddison)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-completion-type/79478/1 "2017-03-21T17:41:11Z")

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Is it permitted (and if so, is it wise?) to have a completion field type as a part of a multi-field?

More specifically, could I have a `name` multi-field like so?

name -\> `text` (mainly for display purposes)  
name.normalized -\> `keyword` (for exact matches)  
name.suggest -\> `completion` (autocomplete, obviously)

or do I need to create a top level, single `name_suggest` field?

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**Author:** ![jaddison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jaddison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaddison)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-completion-type/79478/2 "2017-03-23T18:42:18Z")

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Is there more information I should add to this question to get a reply/make sense? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-completion-type/79478/3 "2017-04-20T18:42:32Z")

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