# Percolate on all indexes/all doc of same type **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 1, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolate-on-all-indexes-all-doc-of-same-type/6041 "2011-12-01T15:33:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aurelien\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@Aurelien\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aurelien_2)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolate-on-all-indexes-all-doc-of-same-type/6041/1 "2011-12-01T15:33:50Z")
Hello. I'm using ES in REST to index same type of document over multiples indexes, and I was planning to use percolate to permit users to write rules. Those rules may be restricted to a single index, but may be for all the documents of a type on all indexes. I'd like to know if there's a way to use register and percolate queries on all the indexes or to percolate a resultset from a query, I did not find anything like this on documentation nor mailing list. API shows examples for percolating on one single index. Thanks Aurélien. ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolate-on-all-indexes-all-doc-of-same-type/6041/2 "2011-12-04T14:06:36Z")
No, you can't register a percolate query against all indices..., it has to be on a specific index. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Aurélien [aurelien.dehay@gmail.com](mailto:aurelien.dehay@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello. > > I'm using ES in REST to index same type of document over multiples > indexes, and I was planning to use percolate to permit users to write > rules. Those rules may be restricted to a single index, but may be for > all the documents of a type on all indexes. > > I'd like to know if there's a way to use register and percolate > queries on all the indexes or to percolate a resultset from a query, I > did not find anything like this on documentation nor mailing list. API > shows examples for percolating on one single index. > > Thanks > > Aurélien. ---
**Author:** ![Kenneth\_Loafman\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kenneth_loafman_2/32/2224_2.png) [@Kenneth\_Loafman\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kenneth_Loafman_2)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolate-on-all-indexes-all-doc-of-same-type/6041/3 "2011-12-04T15:51:55Z")
But you can make it work similar to the way you want. The way we do it is to assign dummy indexes, 'includes', and 'excludes'. When a rule is set up as an include the return values from percolate tells us which index(es) the document needs to be stored into. Similarly, when a rule is set up as an exclude the return values from percolate tell us which index(es) the document needs to be excluded from. The difference between these two sets of indexes determines if and where the document is stored. Hope this helps. ...Ken On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Shay Banon [kimchy@gmail.com](mailto:kimchy@gmail.com) wrote: > No, you can't register a percolate query against all indices..., it has to > be on a specific index. > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Aurélien [aurelien.dehay@gmail.com](mailto:aurelien.dehay@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > I'm using ES in REST to index same type of document over multiples > > indexes, and I was planning to use percolate to permit users to write > > rules. Those rules may be restricted to a single index, but may be for > > all the documents of a type on all indexes. > > > > I'd like to know if there's a way to use register and percolate > > queries on all the indexes or to percolate a resultset from a query, I > > did not find anything like this on documentation nor mailing list. API > > shows examples for percolating on one single index. > > > > Thanks > > > > Aurélien. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolate-on-all-indexes-all-doc-of-same-type/6041/4 "2017-07-06T03:46:28Z")