# Searching Document (NEST) with Selecting fields to return

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-document-nest-with-selecting-fields-to-return/258967>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-document-nest-with-selecting-fields-to-return/258967 "2020-12-17T09:05:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![mohannad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mohannad/32/78690_2.png) [@mohannad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohannad)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-document-nest-with-selecting-fields-to-return/258967/1 "2020-12-17T09:05:43Z")

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Hi,

I am quite new in Elasticsearch and I have some questions. The case is "FS-Crawler" is used with Elastic to index a group of documents. I am trying to search (using NEST) the content of the documents with filtration for some fields like (file\_name, file\_created) and I want to select specific fields to return. I followed the link below:

> **[Selecting fields to return | Elasticsearch.Net and NEST: the .NET clients...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/master/returned-fields.html)**

Is there another way to search without enabling `_source` option in the indexing stage?!

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-document-nest-with-selecting-fields-to-return/258967/2 "2021-01-14T09:05:52Z")

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