# Omit Zero Score Results From Filtered Query?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/omit-zero-score-results-from-filtered-query/218224
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/omit-zero-score-results-from-filtered-query/218224 "2020-02-06T17:04:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@codyspeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codyspeck)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/omit-zero-score-results-from-filtered-query/218224/1 "2020-02-06T17:04:53Z")
Is it possible to omit results with a zero score when doing a filtered query? Take the following query for example:
```
GET demo/_search?pretty
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": {
"match": {
"part_number": {
"query": "S1-SS2"
}
}
},
"filter": {
"nested": {
"path": "categories",
"query": {
"term": {
"categories.omit": false
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
Without the filter clause, this query only returns scored results where the "part\_number" matches "S1-SS2". With the filter clause, however, I'm getting those scored matches alongside hundreds of results with score of "0.0" -- seemingly every document in my index that matches the filter clause. I'm hoping there is a way I can remove these non-matching results from my query.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/omit-zero-score-results-from-filtered-query/218224/2 "2020-02-07T14:55:52Z")
if you are not interested in those documents, why not do a `must` clause instead?
That said, there is also the [min\_score](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/search-request-body.html#request-body-search-min-score) parameter.
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### Author:  [@codyspeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codyspeck)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/omit-zero-score-results-from-filtered-query/218224/3 "2020-02-11T15:15:19Z")
Ahh using `must` clause instead of the `should` clause is exactly what I needed.
Thank you very much!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/omit-zero-score-results-from-filtered-query/218224/4 "2020-03-10T15:15:25Z")
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