# Multi-select faceting
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-select-faceting/6328
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 9, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-select-faceting/6328 "2012-01-09T16:08:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Wojciech\_Durczynski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wojciech_Durczynski)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-select-faceting/6328/1 "2012-01-09T16:08:15Z")
Hello
I'd like to use multi-select faceting in Elastic Search.
This feature is described on Lucene's Jira:
[https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3079](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3079)
I mean following part:
> - evaluation of facet values that would dismiss due to other facet filters
> (Yonik says Solr calls this "multi-select faceting").(realized by
> FacetSearcher.fillFacetsForGuiMode())
>
> Let me explain the last point: For the user a facet query
> (color==green) AND (shape==circle OR shape==square)
> may look like
> Facet color
> (3) red
> (5) green
> (7) blue
> Facet shape
> (9) circle
> (4) line
> (2) square
> The red/blue/line facet values will display even though the
> corresponding documents are not in the result set. Also there is
> support for filtered facet values with zero results, so users
> understand why they do not get results.
I'm sure that this feature would be very useful.
There is a workaround now - prepare facet requests with complex facet
filters, but it's so difficult sometimes and very ineffective.
Is there a possibility that ES would contain an out-of-the-box solution for
this use case?
I think that the greatest difficulty will be to match facet requests in
query and facet selections (provided probably as filters). Maybe there
should also be a way to convert selected facets into filters to next query
easily?
Regards
Wojciech Durczyński
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### Author:  [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2012, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-select-faceting/6328/2 "2012-01-10T09:50:50Z")
It is already possible with ES (not sure if you mean that with
'workaround'), but yes, for this specific use case it can go probably
easier. Here is my discussion with Shay:
>
Feel free to comment there 🙂
Peter.
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### Author:  [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2012, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-select-faceting/6328/3 "2012-01-10T09:51:46Z")
> I think that the greatest difficulty will be to match facet requests in
> query and facet selections (provided probably as filters). Maybe there
> should also be a way to convert selected facets into filters to next query
> easily?
Why do you think its complicated as facets can have a name?
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### Author:  [@Wojciech\_Durczynski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wojciech_Durczynski)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-select-faceting/6328/4 "2012-01-11T15:12:51Z")
With search filter described here:
>
this feature is easy to implement.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-select-faceting/6328/5 "2017-07-06T03:43:07Z")