# Multi match query or any search query is not working when field data is in Json string format

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-or-any-search-query-is-not-working-when-field-data-is-in-json-string-format/311527>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 5, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-or-any-search-query-is-not-working-when-field-data-is-in-json-string-format/311527 "2022-08-05T12:37:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![sona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@sona](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sona)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-or-any-search-query-is-not-working-when-field-data-is-in-json-string-format/311527/1 "2022-08-05T12:37:18Z")

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Hi,

One of the field in my index is in json string format but I am not able to perform multi match search query on this. For example if I am passing query as my\_full\_name I am not getting any output. Below is the query which i tried. Can someone help?

`GET /_search { "query": { "multi_match": { "query": "my_full_name", "fields": ["schema.columns"] } } }`

Index data -\>  
`"schema" : { "columns" : "[{\"idx\": 0, \"mode\": \"NULLABLE\", \"name\": \"my_full_name\", \"tags\": null, \"type\": \"STRING\", \"header\": \"my full/name\"}]" }`

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**Author:** ![sona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@sona](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sona)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-or-any-search-query-is-not-working-when-field-data-is-in-json-string-format/311527/2 "2022-08-23T11:01:53Z")

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Can some help me with this?

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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:** [September 20, 2022, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-query-or-any-search-query-is-not-working-when-field-data-is-in-json-string-format/311527/3 "2022-09-20T11:02:44Z")

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