# Order by ID is not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-by-id-is-not-working/234071>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [May 24, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-by-id-is-not-working/234071 "2020-05-24T22:26:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gpribi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gpribi/32/65066_2.png) [@gpribi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gpribi)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-by-id-is-not-working/234071/1 "2020-05-24T22:26:57Z")

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Hello, I'm doing a search where I need to order the documents by its ID. The ID is always a number.

The filter by ID works OK, but the sorting by ID has no effect.

I have another field in my documents that replicate the ID's value. When I sort by this duplicated field, it works ok.

Sure, I can sort with this additional field, but I wanted to let you know about this ID situation. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

This is my query:  
`{"query": "","page": {"size": 1000,"current": 1},"result_fields": {"id": { "raw": {} }},"filters" : {"idproducto": {"from": 0}},"sort": {"id": "asc"}}`

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**Author:** ![JasonStoltz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jasonstoltz/32/49893_2.png) [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-by-id-is-not-working/234071/2 "2020-06-05T11:20:33Z")

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Hey @gpribi,

Thank you for letting us know. Glad you have a workaround for now.

Jason

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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:** [July 3, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-by-id-is-not-working/234071/3 "2020-07-03T11:20:50Z")

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