# Multi-field query syntax **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 16, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-syntax/12812 "2013-07-16T20:11:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hassan\_Schroeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hassan_schroeder/32/1526_2.png) [@Hassan\_Schroeder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hassan_Schroeder)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-syntax/12812/1 "2013-07-16T20:11:42Z")
I'm struggling with ES syntax right now. Is there a way to match e.g. term A against field A and term B against field B in a simple boolean query? The gist below "works" as in "returns the appropriate entries" using sense as the client (despite sense complaining about the duplicate "must") - but it doesn't feel right and it's not DRY. > What's the proper way to do this? TIA! ## H\* Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [hassan.schroeder@gmail.com](mailto:hassan.schroeder@gmail.com) [http://about.me/hassanschroeder](http://about.me/hassanschroeder) twitter: @hassan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-syntax/12812/2 "2013-07-17T06:19:15Z")
Hey, good if it works! In order to improve slightly you could make the must field an array which contains your queries. --Alex On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Hassan Schroeder \< [hassan.schroeder@gmail.com](mailto:hassan.schroeder@gmail.com)\> wrote: > I'm struggling with ES syntax right now. Is there a way to match > e.g. term A against field A and term B against field B in a simple > boolean query? > > The gist below "works" as in "returns the appropriate entries" using > sense as the client (despite sense complaining about the duplicate > "must") - but it doesn't feel right and it's not DRY. > > [elasticsearch query syntax - not DRY enough ยท GitHub](https://gist.github.com/hassan/16e48838886109c4b2bb) > > What's the proper way to do this? > > TIA! > > ## H\* > > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [hassan.schroeder@gmail.com](mailto:hassan.schroeder@gmail.com) > [Hassan Schroeder | about.me](http://about.me/hassanschroeder) > twitter: @hassan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Hassan\_Schroeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hassan_schroeder/32/1526_2.png) [@Hassan\_Schroeder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hassan_Schroeder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-syntax/12812/3 "2013-07-17T12:09:52Z")
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Alexander Reelsen [alr@spinscale.de](mailto:alr@spinscale.de) wrote: > good if it works! In order to improve slightly you could make the must field > an array which contains your queries. Uh, yeah, that's what I'd like to do -- but what does that look like? I thought I understood JSON format but NOTHING I can come up with results in anything but errors like QueryParsingException[[resources] [match] query malformed, no field] A working example would be extremely helpful (and a good thing to add to the docs, I'd think). I'm using ES 0.90.0, BTW, in case this is a known problem. ## TIA, Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [hassan.schroeder@gmail.com](mailto:hassan.schroeder@gmail.com) [Hassan Schroeder | about.me](http://about.me/hassanschroeder) twitter: @hassan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Th](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Christian\_Th](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Th)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-syntax/12812/4 "2013-07-17T12:23:37Z")
I recommend to use suche plugin- GUIs like [http://mobz.github.io/elasticsearch-head/](http://mobz.github.io/elasticsearch-head/) > **[jettro/elasticsearch-gui](https://github.com/jettro/elasticsearch-gui)** > > elasticsearch-gui - An angularJS client for elasticsearch as a plugin or an other gui like > **[okfn/facetview](https://github.com/okfn/facetview)** > > facetview - FacetView is a pure javascript frontend for ElasticSearch. With Chrome, FireFox,.. you can take a look at the generated JSON. Hope this helps -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Th](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Christian\_Th](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Th)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-syntax/12812/5 "2013-07-17T12:24:02Z")
I recommend to use such plugin- GUIs like [http://mobz.github.io/elasticsearch-head/](http://mobz.github.io/elasticsearch-head/) > **[jettro/elasticsearch-gui](https://github.com/jettro/elasticsearch-gui)** > > elasticsearch-gui - An angularJS client for elasticsearch as a plugin or an other gui like > **[okfn/facetview](https://github.com/okfn/facetview)** > > facetview - FacetView is a pure javascript frontend for ElasticSearch. With Chrome, FireFox,.. you can take a look at the generated JSON. Hope this helps -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Hassan\_Schroeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hassan_schroeder/32/1526_2.png) [@Hassan\_Schroeder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hassan_Schroeder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-syntax/12812/6 "2013-07-17T13:04:21Z")
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Christian Th. [chth.exensio@gmail.com](mailto:chth.exensio@gmail.com) wrote: > I recommend to use such plugin- GUIs like > [ElasticSearch Head](http://mobz.github.io/elasticsearch-head/) > [GitHub - jettro/elasticsearch-gui: An angularJS client for elasticsearch as a plugin](https://github.com/jettro/elasticsearch-gui) > or an other gui like > [GitHub - rufuspollock-okfn/facetview: FacetView is a pure javascript frontend for ElasticSearch.](https://github.com/okfn/facetview) > > With Chrome, FireFox,.. you can take a look at the generated JSON. > > Hope this helps Thank you, yes -- seeing some generated queries shed light on my issue (which wasn't actually json-format-related), though now I apparently need to go back to the docs for a little more study ๐Ÿ™‚ Thanks again, ## H\* Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [hassan.schroeder@gmail.com](mailto:hassan.schroeder@gmail.com) [Hassan Schroeder | about.me](http://about.me/hassanschroeder) twitter: @hassan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-syntax/12812/7 "2017-07-06T02:25:57Z")