# Penalty or boost from a boolean property
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/penalty-or-boost-from-a-boolean-property/18235
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 20, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/penalty-or-boost-from-a-boolean-property/18235 "2014-06-20T17:50:25Z")
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### Author:  [@hugo\_lassiege](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hugo_lassiege)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/penalty-or-boost-from-a-boolean-property/18235/1 "2014-06-20T17:50:25Z")
Hi,
I'm looking for help ๐ This is maybe trivial but I can't find the good
solution.
I have some documents and those documents have two boolean properties,
basically thumbs up and thumbs down to show that the administrator approve
or not those documents.
I try to boost a document if it is "thumbsup" or demote the document if it
is thumbsdown. It's not a filter, the document could be retrieved, it's
just more or less relevant.
I tried with two should clauses in the global request :
{
"bool" : {
"should" : [
{
"term" : { "champ1" : "valeur1" }
},
{
"term" : { "champ2" : "valeur2" }
},
{
"term" : { "thumbsup" : true }
},
{
"term" : { "thumbsdown" : false}
}
]
}
}
But I get some irrelevant documents because they match the last conditions.
What would be the best method for this use case ?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/penalty-or-boost-from-a-boolean-property/18235/2 "2014-06-20T17:54:16Z")
Function\_score is the way to go IMHO.
Best
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Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs
> Le 20 juin 2014 ร 19:50, hugo lassiege [hlassiege@gmail.com](mailto:hlassiege@gmail.com) a รฉcrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for help ๐ This is maybe trivial but I can't find the good solution.
>
> I have some documents and those documents have two boolean properties, basically thumbs up and thumbs down to show that the administrator approve or not those documents.
> I try to boost a document if it is "thumbsup" or demote the document if it is thumbsdown. It's not a filter, the document could be retrieved, it's just more or less relevant.
>
> I tried with two should clauses in the global request :
>
> {
> "bool" : {
> "should" : [
> {
> "term" : { "champ1" : "valeur1" }
> },
> {
> "term" : { "champ2" : "valeur2" }
> },
> {
> "term" : { "thumbsup" : true }
> },
> {
> "term" : { "thumbsdown" : false}
> }
> ]
> }
> }
>
> ## But I get some irrelevant documents because they match the last conditions. What would be the best method for this use case ?
>
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### Author:  [@hugo\_lassiege](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hugo_lassiege)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/penalty-or-boost-from-a-boolean-property/18235/3 "2014-06-24T11:16:40Z")
Thanks for your help. It works ๐
2014-06-20 19:54 GMT+02:00 David Pilato [david@pilato.fr](mailto:david@pilato.fr):
> Function\_score is the way to go IMHO.
>
> Best
>
> --
> David ๐
> Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs
>
> Le 20 juin 2014 ร 19:50, hugo lassiege [hlassiege@gmail.com](mailto:hlassiege@gmail.com) a รฉcrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for help ๐ This is maybe trivial but I can't find the good
> solution.
>
> I have some documents and those documents have two boolean properties,
> basically thumbs up and thumbs down to show that the administrator approve
> or not those documents.
> I try to boost a document if it is "thumbsup" or demote the document if it
> is thumbsdown. It's not a filter, the document could be retrieved, it's
> just more or less relevant.
>
> I tried with two should clauses in the global request :
>
> {
> "bool" : {
> "should" : [
> {
> "term" : { "champ1" : "valeur1" }
> },
> {
> "term" : { "champ2" : "valeur2" }
> },
> {
> "term" : { "thumbsup" : true }
> },
> {
> "term" : { "thumbsdown" : false}
> }
> ]
> }
> }
>
> But I get some irrelevant documents because they match the last
> conditions.
> What would be the best method for this use case ?
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/penalty-or-boost-from-a-boolean-property/18235/4 "2017-07-06T01:20:14Z")