[Resolved] Question: Using AppSearch/ Search UI to query an EXACT text string with special character '/'

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Hi,

I can not find my solution anywhere, so I am writing my own topic.
I am using Search UI that has its data from an engine that is based on an index created by my own logstash pipeline.

Now, everything works fine, just there is one field that I want to be able to search that looks like this: "329/345/49".

What is happening now is that if I search this, it will search for string that contains either 329 , 345 or 49. But I want to search for exact the string "329/345/49". I tried with the Path hierarchy tokenizer as I know slash is a special character and added it into an index template for the index to use but it will not enable me to search for just the exact string so that it will ONLY give me that one result which has the EXACT match.

If you have any idea, please help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you!

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Welcome!

It needs to be a keyword field instead of text.

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Thank you! will keyword still be able to be queried through the search with Search UI? Also that means, that I have to configure all the fields as keyword then, so it won't show me results of other fields, right?

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Update: it worked thank you @dadoonet !

I had it as text and fields keyword before, now I only defined it as keyword field. I will now change all the other fields which has special characters in them so that it won't mess up with the results.