# "size" attribute doesn't seem to work with date\_histogram facets **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 23, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-attribute-doesnt-seem-to-work-with-date-histogram-facets/10478 "2013-01-23T17:47:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brian\_Phunk\_Gadoury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Brian\_Phunk\_Gadoury](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brian_Phunk_Gadoury)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-attribute-doesnt-seem-to-work-with-date-histogram-facets/10478/1 "2013-01-23T17:47:32Z")
Is the "size" attribute supposed to work with date\_histogram facets the same way it works with terms facets? I can successfully limit the total number of terms facets returned by adding a size attribute to my query, but that attribute has no affect on date\_histogram facets. Also, is it by design that date\_histogram facets do not default to sorting by count value (like terms facets do) but instead, sort by their time value, ascending? (Also, I posted this topic earlier this morning but Google Groups reports "That topic no longer exists." I'm not sure why.) -- ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-attribute-doesnt-seem-to-work-with-date-histogram-facets/10478/2 "2013-01-23T17:57:27Z")
You can see the various options by looking at the DateHistogramFacetProcessor class [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/facet/datehistogram/DateHistogramFacetProcessor.java](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/facet/datehistogram/DateHistogramFacetProcessor.java) Size is not supported. The various sorting options (time, count, total) are presented here: [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/facet/datehistogram/DateHistogramFacet.java#L48](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/facet/datehistogram/DateHistogramFacet.java#L48) Cheers, Ivan On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Brian 'Phunk' Gadoury \< [bgadoury@endpoint.com](mailto:bgadoury@endpoint.com)\> wrote: > Is the "size" attribute supposed to work with date\_histogram facets the > same way it works with terms facets? I can successfully limit the total > number of terms facets returned by adding a size attribute to my query, but > that attribute has no affect on date\_histogram facets. > > Also, is it by design that date\_histogram facets do not default to sorting > by count value (like terms facets do) but instead, sort by their time > value, ascending? > > (Also, I posted this topic earlier this morning but Google Groups reports > "That topic no longer exists." I'm not sure why.) > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Phunk\_Gadoury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Brian\_Phunk\_Gadoury](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brian_Phunk_Gadoury)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-attribute-doesnt-seem-to-work-with-date-histogram-facets/10478/3 "2013-01-23T18:33:41Z")
Thank you for the reply, Ivan. Shortly _after_ I posted this thread, I spotted that the ES documentation discusses the size, etc. options for the Terms facet, but not for date\_histogram. Whoops. I guess I'll force the sort option in my queries to get that consistent between different facet types. Then I'll just limit the facet count once I get the response back from ES. Thanks again. -Phunk On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:57:27 AM UTC-7, Ivan Brusic wrote: > You can see the various options by looking at > the DateHistogramFacetProcessor class > > [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/facet/datehistogram/DateHistogramFacetProcessor.java](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/facet/datehistogram/DateHistogramFacetProcessor.java) > > Size is not supported. The various sorting options (time, count, total) > are presented here: > > [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/facet/datehistogram/DateHistogramFacet.java#L48](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/facet/datehistogram/DateHistogramFacet.java#L48) > > Cheers, > > Ivan > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Brian 'Phunk' Gadoury \< > [bgad...@endpoint.com](mailto:bgad...@endpoint.com) \\> wrote: > > > Is the "size" attribute supposed to work with date\_histogram facets the > > same way it works with terms facets? I can successfully limit the total > > number of terms facets returned by adding a size attribute to my query, but > > that attribute has no affect on date\_histogram facets. > > > > Also, is it by design that date\_histogram facets do not default to > > sorting by count value (like terms facets do) but instead, sort by their > > time value, ascending? > > > > (Also, I posted this topic earlier this morning but Google Groups reports > > "That topic no longer exists." I'm not sure why.) > > > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-attribute-doesnt-seem-to-work-with-date-histogram-facets/10478/4 "2017-07-06T02:54:56Z")