# Multi match query and nested object **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 13, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416 "2016-07-13T14:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ayblanchet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ayblanchet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayblanchet)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/1 "2016-07-13T14:07:54Z")
Hi, Do you know how use multi match query with nested object in cross\_fields type, by example i wouldlike to get one document with "shakespeare romeo" with this document: ```auto { "title": "romero & juliette", "authors": [{ "name":"shakespeare"},{"name":"Montesquieu"}] } ``` and use this query: ```auto { "multi_match":{ "operator":"and", "type":"cross_fields", "query":"shakespeare juliette", "fields":["title","author.name"] } } ``` I try to use shoud with on query with nested and an other with no nested query, but with the cross\_fields and "and" operator the result is not correct. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jpountz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jpountz/32/45836_2.png) [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/2 "2016-07-13T14:15:15Z")
What do you mean by "not correct"? ---
**Author:** ![ayblanchet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ayblanchet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayblanchet)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/3 "2016-07-13T14:29:07Z")
With "and" operator and cross\_field, it's search with shakespeare and juliette in "title" and shakespeare and juliette in "[author.name](http://author.name)". The two words is not in the two subquery of should. And if I change operator "and" to "or", if i search skakespeare and brian , it return my document but shakespeare is correct and brian not. ---
**Author:** ![jpountz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jpountz/32/45836_2.png) [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/4 "2016-07-13T14:55:53Z")
It seems to work for me on elasticsearch 2.4.0: ```auto DELETE t PUT t/t/1 { "title": "romeo & juliette", "author": [{ "name":"shakespeare"},{"name":"Montesquieu"}] } GET t/_search { "query": { "multi_match": { "operator": "and", "type": "cross_fields", "query": "shakespeare juliette", "fields": [ "title", "author.name" ] } } } ``` Could it be due to the fact that your query has a typo and uses `author.name` instead of `authors.name`? ---
**Author:** ![ayblanchet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ayblanchet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayblanchet)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/5 "2016-07-13T15:17:48Z")
I try on other index it's works, but with my index it's doesn't... My index was created with these settings: ``` { "settings" : { "index" : { "number_of_shards" : 5, "number_of_replicas" : 1, "analysis" : { "tokenizer" : { "ngram_tokenizer" : { "type": "nGram", "min_gram": 4, "max_gram": 6, "token_chars": ["letter", "digit"] } }, "analyzer" : { "french" : { "filter" : [ "french_elision", "lowercase", "french_stop", "french_stemmer" ], "tokenizer" : "ngram_tokenizer", "type" : "custom" } }, "filter" : { "french_elision" : { "type" : "elision", "articles_case" : true, "articles" : [ "l", "m", "t", "qu", "n", "s", "j", "d", "c", "jusqu", "quoiqu", "lorsqu", "puisqu" ] }, "french_stop": { "type" : "stop", "stopwords" : "_french_" } , "french_stemmer": { "type" : "stemmer", "language" : "light_french" } } } } } } ``` Thanks for your help, ---
**Author:** ![ayblanchet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ayblanchet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayblanchet)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/6 "2016-07-13T19:46:27Z")
It's would seem it's the analyzer:french on attibute which is the problem. ---
**Author:** ![ayblanchet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ayblanchet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayblanchet)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/7 "2016-07-25T15:45:08Z")
Hi jprountz, It's not work if the type for author is specified by "nested" type. How adapt the query for works with nested and not nested fields in cross\_field mode? Thanks for your help, ---
**Author:** ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/8 "2017-05-24T23:08:00Z")
Hello, you cannot use cross field between différent documents (what nested does). Si instead, you could do a bool query with 2 matchs ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-and-nested-object/55416/9 "2017-07-05T22:00:05Z")