# Query help
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-help/3070
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 6, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-help/3070 "2010-07-06T19:02:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@sallyjones](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sallyjones)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-help/3070/1 "2010-07-06T19:02:43Z")
Hi
I am struggling with what I thought should be a simple query. Here is
a data example:
{paragraphs=[
{important=true, wordCount=122, text="blah blah blah..."},
{important=false, wordCount=31, text="some more blah blah blah"} ],
author="sally",
postDate=2010-07-06}
I am trying to find documents that have a "paragraphs.text" that match
passed in keywords (easy), but I want to score the "value" of the
document that matched based on paragraph's associated "wordCount" and
"important" properties. More specifically, I want to favor the hits
that are on paragraphs that are important=true and have a low word
count.
I can see the SQL and code to do it in my head, but after
experimenting and digging through the docs, I am stumped on how to do
it with ES. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Sally
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-help/3070/2 "2010-07-06T19:09:32Z")
I think that what you are looking for is this feature:
[Issues · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/closed#issue/220) which
will be part of 0.9.
-shay.banon
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:02 PM, sallyjones [sallybop291@yahoo.com](mailto:sallybop291@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am struggling with what I thought should be a simple query. Here is
> a data example:
>
> {paragraphs=[
> {important=true, wordCount=122, text="blah blah blah..."},
> {important=false, wordCount=31, text="some more blah blah blah"} ],
> author="sally",
> postDate=2010-07-06}
>
> I am trying to find documents that have a "paragraphs.text" that match
> passed in keywords (easy), but I want to score the "value" of the
> document that matched based on paragraph's associated "wordCount" and
> "important" properties. More specifically, I want to favor the hits
> that are on paragraphs that are important=true and have a low word
> count.
>
> I can see the SQL and code to do it in my head, but after
> experimenting and digging through the docs, I am stumped on how to do
> it with ES. Any help is greatly appreciated!
> Sally
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### Author:  [@sallyjones](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sallyjones)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-help/3070/3 "2010-07-06T20:01:56Z")
Thanks for the quick response, and thats a very nice feature. Does
the latest version of the source include the 0.9 features or do I need
to wait for an official 0.9 release?
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-help/3070/4 "2010-07-06T20:11:23Z")
Its already in master, so if you want to try it, you can build from source
and give it a go.
-shay.banon
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:01 PM, sallyjones [sallybop291@yahoo.com](mailto:sallybop291@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response, and thats a very nice feature. Does
> the latest version of the source include the 0.9 features or do I need
> to wait for an official 0.9 release?
---
### Author:  [@sallyjones](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sallyjones)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-help/3070/5 "2010-07-06T20:14:13Z")
Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-help/3070/6 "2017-07-06T04:22:38Z")