# Query for absence of field
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-absence-of-field/7457
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 24, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-absence-of-field/7457 "2012-04-24T21:15:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@aaron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-absence-of-field/7457/1 "2012-04-24T21:15:47Z")
I would like to index some document with a field, isActive = true, and then
later query for documents that have this field = false or that do not have
the field at all. Can I query for documents that are absent values for a
given field?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-absence-of-field/7457/2 "2012-04-24T21:36:57Z")
Are you looking for the missing filter ?
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>
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HTH
David 😉
Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr
Le 24 avr. 2012 à 23:15, aaron [atdixon@gmail.com](mailto:atdixon@gmail.com) a écrit :
> I would like to index some document with a field, isActive = true, and then later query for documents that have this field = false or that do not have the field at all. Can I query for documents that are absent values for a given field?
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### Author:  [@aaron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-absence-of-field/7457/3 "2012-04-24T22:39:34Z")
Thank you!
On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 4:36:57 PM UTC-5, David Pilato wrote:
> Are you looking for the missing filter ?
>
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/missing-filter.html)
>
> HTH
> David 😉
> Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr
>
> Le 24 avr. 2012 à 23:15, aaron \<\> a écrit :
>
> > I would like to index some document with a field, isActive = true, and
> > then later query for documents that have this field = false or that do not
> > have the field at all. Can I query for documents that are absent values for
> > a given field?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-absence-of-field/7457/4 "2017-07-06T03:31:13Z")