# Question about multi\_field and edge ngram

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 5, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885 "2012-03-05T07:07:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![quain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/quain/32/2925_2.png) [@quain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quain)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/1 "2012-03-05T07:07:04Z")

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I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
the term is there exactly:

curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1)' -d '  
{  
"query" : {  
"text" : {  
"name.ngram" : {  
"query" : "xyz"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
'

Here's my mapping:

curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '  
{  
"mappings" : {  
"member" : {  
"properties" : {  
"name" : {  
"type": "multi\_field",  
"fields" : {  
"untouched": {  
"type": "string",  
"index": "not\_analyzed"  
},  
"name": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "standard\_name"  
},  
"ngram" : {  
"search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
"index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}  
},  
"settings" : {  
"analysis" : {  
"filter" : {  
"name\_ngrams" : {  
"side" : "front",  
"max\_gram" : 10,  
"min\_gram" : 1,  
"type" : "edgeNGram"  
}  
},  
"analyzer" : {  
"standard\_name" : {  
"filter" : [  
"standard",  
"lowercase",  
"asciifolding"  
],  
"type" : "custom",  
"tokenizer" : "standard"  
},  
"partial\_name" : {  
"filter" : [  
"standard",  
"lowercase",  
"asciifolding",  
"name\_ngrams"  
],  
"type" : "custom",  
"tokenizer" : "standard"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}  
'

Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

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**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:** [March 5, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/2 "2012-03-05T15:19:07Z")

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Can you gist a sample with setting up the index, the mappings, indexing sample doc(s) and then showing the search request that do not work for you? It would help a lot. (see [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help)).

On Monday, March 5, 2012 at 9:07 AM, quain wrote:

> I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> the term is there exactly:
> 
> curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1)' -d '  
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "text" : {  
> "name.ngram" : {  
> "query" : "xyz"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> '
> 
> Here's my mapping:
> 
> curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '  
> {  
> "mappings" : {  
> "member" : {  
> "properties" : {  
> "name" : {  
> "type": "multi\_field",  
> "fields" : {  
> "untouched": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> },  
> "name": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> },  
> "ngram" : {  
> "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "settings" : {  
> "analysis" : {  
> "filter" : {  
> "name\_ngrams" : {  
> "side" : "front",  
> "max\_gram" : 10,  
> "min\_gram" : 1,  
> "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> }  
> },  
> "analyzer" : {  
> "standard\_name" : {  
> "filter" : [  
> "standard",  
> "lowercase",  
> "asciifolding"  
> ],  
> "type" : "custom",  
> "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> },  
> "partial\_name" : {  
> "filter" : [  
> "standard",  
> "lowercase",  
> "asciifolding",  
> "name\_ngrams"  
> ],  
> "type" : "custom",  
> "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> '
> 
> Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

---

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**Author:** ![quain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/quain/32/2925_2.png) [@quain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quain)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/3 "2012-03-05T16:31:38Z")

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> <https://gist.github.com/jwyuan/1979125>

Here is the gist. Thanks very much for any help that can be  
provided. I'm mostly interested in if I'm setting up the mapping  
incorrectly, or using the multi\_field or ngram types incorrectly.

On Mar 5, 7:19 am, Shay Banon [kim...@gmail.com](mailto:kim...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Can you gist a sample with setting up the index, the mappings, indexing sample doc(s) and then showing the search request that do not work for you? It would help a lot. (seehttp://www.elasticsearch.org/help).
> 
> On Monday, March 5, 2012 at 9:07 AM, quain wrote:
> 
> > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > the term is there exactly:
> 
> > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > {  
> > "query" : {  
> > "text" : {  
> > "name.ngram" : {  
> > "query" : "xyz"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > '
> 
> > Here's my mapping:
> 
> > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > {  
> > "mappings" : {  
> > "member" : {  
> > "properties" : {  
> > "name" : {  
> > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > "fields" : {  
> > "untouched": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "name": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > },  
> > "ngram" : {  
> > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "settings" : {  
> > "analysis" : {  
> > "filter" : {  
> > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > "side" : "front",  
> > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "analyzer" : {  
> > "standard\_name" : {  
> > "filter" : [  
> > "standard",  
> > "lowercase",  
> > "asciifolding"  
> > ],  
> > "type" : "custom",  
> > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > },  
> > "partial\_name" : {  
> > "filter" : [  
> > "standard",  
> > "lowercase",  
> > "asciifolding",  
> > "name\_ngrams"  
> > ],  
> > "type" : "custom",  
> > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > '
> 
> > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

---

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**Author:** ![Garrick\_Evans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Garrick\_Evans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Garrick_Evans)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/4 "2012-03-05T18:35:47Z")

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What if you

"query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}

?

On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:

> I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> the term is there exactly:
> 
> curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1)' -d '  
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "text" : {  
> "name.ngram" : {  
> "query" : "xyz"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> '
> 
> Here's my mapping:
> 
> curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '  
> {  
> "mappings" : {  
> "member" : {  
> "properties" : {  
> "name" : {  
> "type": "multi\_field",  
> "fields" : {  
> "untouched": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> },  
> "name": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> },  
> "ngram" : {  
> "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "settings" : {  
> "analysis" : {  
> "filter" : {  
> "name\_ngrams" : {  
> "side" : "front",  
> "max\_gram" : 10,  
> "min\_gram" : 1,  
> "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> }  
> },  
> "analyzer" : {  
> "standard\_name" : {  
> "filter" : [  
> "standard",  
> "lowercase",  
> "asciifolding"  
> ],  
> "type" : "custom",  
> "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> },  
> "partial\_name" : {  
> "filter" : [  
> "standard",  
> "lowercase",  
> "asciifolding",  
> "name\_ngrams"  
> ],  
> "type" : "custom",  
> "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> '
> 
> Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

---

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**Author:** ![quain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/quain/32/2925_2.png) [@quain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quain)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/5 "2012-03-05T19:10:51Z")

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Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.

I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
why it doesn't work.

On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans [buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) wrote:

> What if you
> 
> "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> 
> ?
> 
> On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> 
> > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > the term is there exactly:
> 
> > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1)' -d '  
> > {  
> > "query" : {  
> > "text" : {  
> > "name.ngram" : {  
> > "query" : "xyz"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > '
> 
> > Here's my mapping:
> 
> > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '  
> > {  
> > "mappings" : {  
> > "member" : {  
> > "properties" : {  
> > "name" : {  
> > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > "fields" : {  
> > "untouched": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "name": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > },  
> > "ngram" : {  
> > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "settings" : {  
> > "analysis" : {  
> > "filter" : {  
> > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > "side" : "front",  
> > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "analyzer" : {  
> > "standard\_name" : {  
> > "filter" : [  
> > "standard",  
> > "lowercase",  
> > "asciifolding"  
> > ],  
> > "type" : "custom",  
> > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > },  
> > "partial\_name" : {  
> > "filter" : [  
> > "standard",  
> > "lowercase",  
> > "asciifolding",  
> > "name\_ngrams"  
> > ],  
> > "type" : "custom",  
> > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > '
> 
> > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

---

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**Author:** ![Garrick\_Evans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Garrick\_Evans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Garrick_Evans)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/6 "2012-03-05T20:33:59Z")

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You are posting to a "test" type but you created the mapping for "member".  
Try:

> curl - POST '[http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true)' -d '{ "name" :  
> "The Office" }'  
> curl - POST '[http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true)' -d '{ "name" :  
> "The Office (UK)" }'

You should then be able to query like:

> curl -XGET [http://localhost:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://localhost:9200/test/_search?pretty=1) -d  
> '{"query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"th"}}}'  
> {  
> "took" : 1,  
> "timed\_out" : false,  
> "\_shards" : {  
> "total" : 5,  
> "successful" : 5,  
> "failed" : 0  
> },  
> "hits" : {  
> "total" : 2,  
> "max\_score" : 0.25,  
> "hits" : [ {  
> "\_index" : "test",  
> "\_type" : "member",  
> "\_id" : "MLleoK0pR8eBGhY9pkm0ig",  
> "\_score" : 0.25, "\_source" : { "name" : "The Office (UK)" }  
> }, {  
> "\_index" : "test",  
> "\_type" : "member",  
> "\_id" : "nzY1KZ6mRuqrzxosJBi9IQ",  
> "\_score" : 0.095891505, "\_source" : { "name" : "The Office" }  
> } ]  
> }

On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:10:51 AM UTC-8, quain wrote:

> Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
> syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.
> 
> I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
> why it doesn't work.
> 
> On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans [buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > What if you
> > 
> > "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > > the term is there exactly:
> > 
> > > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1)' -d '  
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "text" : {  
> > > "name.ngram" : {  
> > > "query" : "xyz"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > '
> > 
> > > Here's my mapping:
> > 
> > > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '  
> > > {  
> > > "mappings" : {  
> > > "member" : {  
> > > "properties" : {  
> > > "name" : {  
> > > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > > "fields" : {  
> > > "untouched": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "name": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > > },  
> > > "ngram" : {  
> > > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "settings" : {  
> > > "analysis" : {  
> > > "filter" : {  
> > > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > > "side" : "front",  
> > > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "analyzer" : {  
> > > "standard\_name" : {  
> > > "filter" : [  
> > > "standard",  
> > > "lowercase",  
> > > "asciifolding"  
> > > ],  
> > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > },  
> > > "partial\_name" : {  
> > > "filter" : [  
> > > "standard",  
> > > "lowercase",  
> > > "asciifolding",  
> > > "name\_ngrams"  
> > > ],  
> > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > '
> > 
> > > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:10:51 AM UTC-8, quain wrote:

> Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
> syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.
> 
> I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
> why it doesn't work.
> 
> On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans [buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > What if you
> > 
> > "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > > the term is there exactly:
> > 
> > > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1)' -d '  
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "text" : {  
> > > "name.ngram" : {  
> > > "query" : "xyz"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > '
> > 
> > > Here's my mapping:
> > 
> > > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '  
> > > {  
> > > "mappings" : {  
> > > "member" : {  
> > > "properties" : {  
> > > "name" : {  
> > > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > > "fields" : {  
> > > "untouched": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "name": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > > },  
> > > "ngram" : {  
> > > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "settings" : {  
> > > "analysis" : {  
> > > "filter" : {  
> > > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > > "side" : "front",  
> > > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "analyzer" : {  
> > > "standard\_name" : {  
> > > "filter" : [  
> > > "standard",  
> > > "lowercase",  
> > > "asciifolding"  
> > > ],  
> > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > },  
> > > "partial\_name" : {  
> > > "filter" : [  
> > > "standard",  
> > > "lowercase",  
> > > "asciifolding",  
> > > "name\_ngrams"  
> > > ],  
> > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > '
> > 
> > > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

---

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**Author:** ![quain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/quain/32/2925_2.png) [@quain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quain)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/7 "2012-03-05T23:35:31Z")

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Thanks a lot for pointing this out. This was the problem.

I was wondering, is it possible to apply this mapping to all types  
within an index? For example, if I wanted to set the mapping for the  
"name" field for all types of the index "test", can I do that?

On Mar 5, 12:33 pm, Garrick Evans [buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) wrote:

> You are posting to a "test" type but you created the mapping for "member".  
> Try:
> 
> > curl - POST '[http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d](http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d) '{ "name" :  
> > "The Office" }'  
> > curl - POST '[http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d](http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d) '{ "name" :  
> > "The Office (UK)" }'
> 
> You should then be able to query like:
> 
> > curl -XGEThttp://localhost:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1-d  
> > '{"query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"th"}}}'  
> > {  
> > "took" : 1,  
> > "timed\_out" : false,  
> > "\_shards" : {  
> > "total" : 5,  
> > "successful" : 5,  
> > "failed" : 0  
> > },  
> > "hits" : {  
> > "total" : 2,  
> > "max\_score" : 0.25,  
> > "hits" : [ {  
> > "\_index" : "test",  
> > "\_type" : "member",  
> > "\_id" : "MLleoK0pR8eBGhY9pkm0ig",  
> > "\_score" : 0.25, "\_source" : { "name" : "The Office (UK)" }  
> > }, {  
> > "\_index" : "test",  
> > "\_type" : "member",  
> > "\_id" : "nzY1KZ6mRuqrzxosJBi9IQ",  
> > "\_score" : 0.095891505, "\_source" : { "name" : "The Office" }  
> > } ]  
> > }  
> > On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:10:51 AM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
> > syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.
> 
> > I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
> > why it doesn't work.
> 
> > On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans [buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > What if you
> 
> > > "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> 
> > > ?
> 
> > > On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> 
> > > > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > > > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > > > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > > > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > > > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > > > the term is there exactly:
> 
> > > > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > {  
> > > > "query" : {  
> > > > "text" : {  
> > > > "name.ngram" : {  
> > > > "query" : "xyz"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > '
> 
> > > > Here's my mapping:
> 
> > > > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > {  
> > > > "mappings" : {  
> > > > "member" : {  
> > > > "properties" : {  
> > > > "name" : {  
> > > > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > > > "fields" : {  
> > > > "untouched": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "name": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "ngram" : {  
> > > > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > > > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "settings" : {  
> > > > "analysis" : {  
> > > > "filter" : {  
> > > > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > > > "side" : "front",  
> > > > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > > > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > > > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > > > }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "analyzer" : {  
> > > > "standard\_name" : {  
> > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > "standard",  
> > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > "asciifolding"  
> > > > ],  
> > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "partial\_name" : {  
> > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > "standard",  
> > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > "asciifolding",  
> > > > "name\_ngrams"  
> > > > ],  
> > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > '
> 
> > > > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?  
> > > > On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:10:51 AM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
> > syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.
> 
> > I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
> > why it doesn't work.
> 
> > On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans [buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > What if you
> 
> > > "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> 
> > > ?
> 
> > > On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> 
> > > > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > > > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > > > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > > > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > > > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > > > the term is there exactly:
> 
> > > > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > {  
> > > > "query" : {  
> > > > "text" : {  
> > > > "name.ngram" : {  
> > > > "query" : "xyz"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > '
> 
> > > > Here's my mapping:
> 
> > > > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > {  
> > > > "mappings" : {  
> > > > "member" : {  
> > > > "properties" : {  
> > > > "name" : {  
> > > > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > > > "fields" : {  
> > > > "untouched": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "name": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "ngram" : {  
> > > > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > > > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "settings" : {  
> > > > "analysis" : {  
> > > > "filter" : {  
> > > > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > > > "side" : "front",  
> > > > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > > > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > > > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > > > }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "analyzer" : {  
> > > > "standard\_name" : {  
> > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > "standard",  
> > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > "asciifolding"  
> > > > ],  
> > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "partial\_name" : {  
> > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > "standard",  
> > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > "asciifolding",  
> > > > "name\_ngrams"  
> > > > ],  
> > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > '
> 
> > > > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

---

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**Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/8 "2012-03-06T00:28:37Z")

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I think you would use the default mapping:

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On Monday, March 5, 2012 at 3:35 PM, quain wrote:

> Thanks a lot for pointing this out. This was the problem.
> 
> I was wondering, is it possible to apply this mapping to all types  
> within an index? For example, if I wanted to set the mapping for the  
> "name" field for all types of the index "test", can I do that?
> 
> On Mar 5, 12:33 pm, Garrick Evans \<[buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) ([http://gmail.com](http://gmail.com))\> wrote:
> 
> > You are posting to a "test" type but you created the mapping for "member".  
> > Try:
> > 
> > > curl - POST '[http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d](http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d) '{ "name" :  
> > > "The Office" }'  
> > > curl - POST '[http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d](http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d) '{ "name" :  
> > > "The Office (UK)" }'
> > 
> > You should then be able to query like:
> > 
> > > curl -XGEThttp://localhost:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1-d  
> > > '{"query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"th"}}}'  
> > > {  
> > > "took" : 1,  
> > > "timed\_out" : false,  
> > > "\_shards" : {  
> > > "total" : 5,  
> > > "successful" : 5,  
> > > "failed" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "hits" : {  
> > > "total" : 2,  
> > > "max\_score" : 0.25,  
> > > "hits" : [ {  
> > > "\_index" : "test",  
> > > "\_type" : "member",  
> > > "\_id" : "MLleoK0pR8eBGhY9pkm0ig",  
> > > "\_score" : 0.25, "\_source" : { "name" : "The Office (UK)" }  
> > > }, {  
> > > "\_index" : "test",  
> > > "\_type" : "member",  
> > > "\_id" : "nzY1KZ6mRuqrzxosJBi9IQ",  
> > > "\_score" : 0.095891505, "\_source" : { "name" : "The Office" }  
> > > } ]  
> > > }
> > 
> > On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:10:51 AM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
> > > syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.
> > 
> > > I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
> > > why it doesn't work.
> > 
> > > On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans \<[buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) ([http://gmail.com](http://gmail.com))\> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What if you
> > 
> > > > "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> > 
> > > > ?
> > 
> > > > On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > 
> > > > > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > > > > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > > > > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > > > > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > > > > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > > > > the term is there exactly:
> > 
> > > > > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > "text" : {  
> > > > > "name.ngram" : {  
> > > > > "query" : "xyz"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > '
> > 
> > > > > Here's my mapping:
> > 
> > > > > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "mappings" : {  
> > > > > "member" : {  
> > > > > "properties" : {  
> > > > > "name" : {  
> > > > > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > > > > "fields" : {  
> > > > > "untouched": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "name": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "ngram" : {  
> > > > > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > > > > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "settings" : {  
> > > > > "analysis" : {  
> > > > > "filter" : {  
> > > > > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > > > > "side" : "front",  
> > > > > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > > > > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > > > > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "analyzer" : {  
> > > > > "standard\_name" : {  
> > > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > > "standard",  
> > > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > > "asciifolding"  
> > > > > ],  
> > > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "partial\_name" : {  
> > > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > > "standard",  
> > > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > > "asciifolding",  
> > > > > "name\_ngrams"  
> > > > > ],  
> > > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > '
> > 
> > > > > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?  
> > > > > On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:10:51 AM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
> > > syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.
> > 
> > > I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
> > > why it doesn't work.
> > 
> > > On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans \<[buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) ([http://gmail.com](http://gmail.com))\> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What if you
> > 
> > > > "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> > 
> > > > ?
> > 
> > > > On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > 
> > > > > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > > > > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > > > > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > > > > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > > > > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > > > > the term is there exactly:
> > 
> > > > > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > "text" : {  
> > > > > "name.ngram" : {  
> > > > > "query" : "xyz"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > '
> > 
> > > > > Here's my mapping:
> > 
> > > > > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "mappings" : {  
> > > > > "member" : {  
> > > > > "properties" : {  
> > > > > "name" : {  
> > > > > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > > > > "fields" : {  
> > > > > "untouched": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "name": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "ngram" : {  
> > > > > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > > > > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "settings" : {  
> > > > > "analysis" : {  
> > > > > "filter" : {  
> > > > > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > > > > "side" : "front",  
> > > > > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > > > > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > > > > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "analyzer" : {  
> > > > > "standard\_name" : {  
> > > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > > "standard",  
> > > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > > "asciifolding"  
> > > > > ],  
> > > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "partial\_name" : {  
> > > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > > "standard",  
> > > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > > "asciifolding",  
> > > > > "name\_ngrams"  
> > > > > ],  
> > > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > '
> > 
> > > > > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

---

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**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:** [March 6, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-multi-field-and-edge-ngram/6885/9 "2012-03-06T19:28:21Z")

</div>

Another option is to use dynamic templates: [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/root-object-type.html), and set it on a mapping called _default_ (which will apply to all types in the index).

On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Matt Weber wrote:

> I think you would use the default mapping:
> 
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/dynamic-mapping.html)
> 
> --  
> Matt Weber  
> Sent with Sparrow ([http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig](http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig))
> 
> On Monday, March 5, 2012 at 3:35 PM, quain wrote:
> 
> > Thanks a lot for pointing this out. This was the problem.
> > 
> > I was wondering, is it possible to apply this mapping to all types  
> > within an index? For example, if I wanted to set the mapping for the  
> > "name" field for all types of the index "test", can I do that?
> > 
> > On Mar 5, 12:33 pm, Garrick Evans \<[buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) ([http://gmail.com](http://gmail.com))\> wrote:
> > 
> > > You are posting to a "test" type but you created the mapping for "member".  
> > > Try:
> > > 
> > > > curl - POST '[http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d](http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d) '{ "name" :  
> > > > "The Office" }'  
> > > > curl - POST '[http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d](http://localhost:9200/test/member?pretty=true'-d) '{ "name" :  
> > > > "The Office (UK)" }'
> > > 
> > > You should then be able to query like:
> > > 
> > > > curl -XGEThttp://localhost:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1-d  
> > > > '{"query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"th"}}}'  
> > > > {  
> > > > "took" : 1,  
> > > > "timed\_out" : false,  
> > > > "\_shards" : {  
> > > > "total" : 5,  
> > > > "successful" : 5,  
> > > > "failed" : 0  
> > > > },  
> > > > "hits" : {  
> > > > "total" : 2,  
> > > > "max\_score" : 0.25,  
> > > > "hits" : [ {  
> > > > "\_index" : "test",  
> > > > "\_type" : "member",  
> > > > "\_id" : "MLleoK0pR8eBGhY9pkm0ig",  
> > > > "\_score" : 0.25, "\_source" : { "name" : "The Office (UK)" }  
> > > > }, {  
> > > > "\_index" : "test",  
> > > > "\_type" : "member",  
> > > > "\_id" : "nzY1KZ6mRuqrzxosJBi9IQ",  
> > > > "\_score" : 0.095891505, "\_source" : { "name" : "The Office" }  
> > > > } ]  
> > > > }
> > > 
> > > On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:10:51 AM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
> > > > syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.
> > > 
> > > > I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
> > > > why it doesn't work.
> > > 
> > > > On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans \<[buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) ([http://gmail.com](http://gmail.com))\> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > What if you
> > > 
> > > > > "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> > > 
> > > > > ?
> > > 
> > > > > On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > > > > > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > > > > > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > > > > > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > > > > > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > > > > > the term is there exactly:
> > > 
> > > > > > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > > "text" : {  
> > > > > > "name.ngram" : {  
> > > > > > "query" : "xyz"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > '
> > > 
> > > > > > Here's my mapping:
> > > 
> > > > > > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "mappings" : {  
> > > > > > "member" : {  
> > > > > > "properties" : {  
> > > > > > "name" : {  
> > > > > > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > > > > > "fields" : {  
> > > > > > "untouched": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "name": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "ngram" : {  
> > > > > > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > > > > > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "settings" : {  
> > > > > > "analysis" : {  
> > > > > > "filter" : {  
> > > > > > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > > > > > "side" : "front",  
> > > > > > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > > > > > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > > > > > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "analyzer" : {  
> > > > > > "standard\_name" : {  
> > > > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > > > "standard",  
> > > > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > > > "asciifolding"  
> > > > > > ],  
> > > > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "partial\_name" : {  
> > > > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > > > "standard",  
> > > > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > > > "asciifolding",  
> > > > > > "name\_ngrams"  
> > > > > > ],  
> > > > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > '
> > > 
> > > > > > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?  
> > > > > > On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:10:51 AM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Thanks, but I got the same result, still 0 hits. I didn't get a  
> > > > syntax error the first time either, so not sure this is the problem.
> > > 
> > > > I thought I pretty much followed the documentation on this, not sure  
> > > > why it doesn't work.
> > > 
> > > > On Mar 5, 10:35 am, Garrick Evans \<[buk...@gmail.com](mailto:buk...@gmail.com) ([http://gmail.com](http://gmail.com))\> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > What if you
> > > 
> > > > > "query":{"text":{"name.ngram":"xyz"}}}
> > > 
> > > > > ?
> > > 
> > > > > On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > > > > > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > > > > > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > > > > > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > > > > > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > > > > > the term is there exactly:
> > > 
> > > > > > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > > "text" : {  
> > > > > > "name.ngram" : {  
> > > > > > "query" : "xyz"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > '
> > > 
> > > > > > Here's my mapping:
> > > 
> > > > > > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1'-d) '  
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "mappings" : {  
> > > > > > "member" : {  
> > > > > > "properties" : {  
> > > > > > "name" : {  
> > > > > > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > > > > > "fields" : {  
> > > > > > "untouched": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "name": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "ngram" : {  
> > > > > > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > > > > > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "settings" : {  
> > > > > > "analysis" : {  
> > > > > > "filter" : {  
> > > > > > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > > > > > "side" : "front",  
> > > > > > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > > > > > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > > > > > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "analyzer" : {  
> > > > > > "standard\_name" : {  
> > > > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > > > "standard",  
> > > > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > > > "asciifolding"  
> > > > > > ],  
> > > > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "partial\_name" : {  
> > > > > > "filter" : [  
> > > > > > "standard",  
> > > > > > "lowercase",  
> > > > > > "asciifolding",  
> > > > > > "name\_ngrams"  
> > > > > > ],  
> > > > > > "type" : "custom",  
> > > > > > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > '
> > > 
> > > > > > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

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Bring back this old thread, but I have a followup question. Does edge  
ngram filtered fields support prefix or phrase-prefix queries? My goal is  
to prefer results which have the same word ordering as the query, ie if I  
search "Jack John" prefer "Jack Johnson" over "John Jackson". Can this be  
done via a query type/parameter, or custom scoring?

On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:

> I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> the term is there exactly:
> 
> curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1)' -d '  
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "text" : {  
> "name.ngram" : {  
> "query" : "xyz"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> '
> 
> Here's my mapping:
> 
> curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '  
> {  
> "mappings" : {  
> "member" : {  
> "properties" : {  
> "name" : {  
> "type": "multi\_field",  
> "fields" : {  
> "untouched": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> },  
> "name": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> },  
> "ngram" : {  
> "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "settings" : {  
> "analysis" : {  
> "filter" : {  
> "name\_ngrams" : {  
> "side" : "front",  
> "max\_gram" : 10,  
> "min\_gram" : 1,  
> "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> }  
> },  
> "analyzer" : {  
> "standard\_name" : {  
> "filter" : [  
> "standard",  
> "lowercase",  
> "asciifolding"  
> ],  
> "type" : "custom",  
> "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> },  
> "partial\_name" : {  
> "filter" : [  
> "standard",  
> "lowercase",  
> "asciifolding",  
> "name\_ngrams"  
> ],  
> "type" : "custom",  
> "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> '
> 
> Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

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You can execute a phrase query and boost it.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:22 AM, quain [quaintenance@gmail.com](mailto:quaintenance@gmail.com) wrote:

> Bring back this old thread, but I have a followup question. Does edge  
> ngram filtered fields support prefix or phrase-prefix queries? My goal is  
> to prefer results which have the same word ordering as the query, ie if I  
> search "Jack John" prefer "Jack Johnson" over "John Jackson". Can this be  
> done via a query type/parameter, or custom scoring?
> 
> On Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:07:04 PM UTC-8, quain wrote:
> 
> > I'm having some trouble with multi\_field, perhaps some of you guys  
> > could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. After I inserted some  
> > documents, I get 0 hits for any searches of the field name.untouched  
> > or name.ngram. I am successful with the main field just searching on  
> > name. For example, the following returns nothing even though i know  
> > the term is there exactly:
> > 
> > curl -XGET '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_\*\*search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_**search?pretty=1)[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/\_search?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/_search?pretty=1)'  
> > -d '  
> > {  
> > "query" : {  
> > "text" : {  
> > "name.ngram" : {  
> > "query" : "xyz"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > '
> > 
> > Here's my mapping:
> > 
> > curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?\*\*pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?**pretty=1)[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)'  
> > -d '  
> > {  
> > "mappings" : {  
> > "member" : {  
> > "properties" : {  
> > "name" : {  
> > "type": "multi\_field",  
> > "fields" : {  
> > "untouched": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "name": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard\_name"  
> > },  
> > "ngram" : {  
> > "search\_analyzer": "standard\_name",  
> > "index\_analyzer": "partial\_name",  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "settings" : {  
> > "analysis" : {  
> > "filter" : {  
> > "name\_ngrams" : {  
> > "side" : "front",  
> > "max\_gram" : 10,  
> > "min\_gram" : 1,  
> > "type" : "edgeNGram"  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "analyzer" : {  
> > "standard\_name" : {  
> > "filter" : [  
> > "standard",  
> > "lowercase",  
> > "asciifolding"  
> > ],  
> > "type" : "custom",  
> > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > },  
> > "partial\_name" : {  
> > "filter" : [  
> > "standard",  
> > "lowercase",  
> > "asciifolding",  
> > "name\_ngrams"  
> > ],  
> > "type" : "custom",  
> > "tokenizer" : "standard"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > '
> > 
> > Can anyone give me some help to identify what might be wrong?

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