# Sort-able fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-able-fields/24382>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 25, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-able-fields/24382 "2015-06-25T22:53:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bvnagaraju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@bvnagaraju](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bvnagaraju)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-able-fields/24382/1 "2015-06-25T22:53:12Z")

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Hi ,

Does sort-able fields need to be stored ?

Regards,  
Nagaraju

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**Author:** ![dantuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@dantuff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dantuff)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-able-fields/24382/2 "2015-06-26T06:27:23Z")

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No, sort is executed on indexed terms. but you should sort on an copy of the field that has been lowercased and untokenized,

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-able-fields/24382/3 "2017-07-06T00:05:17Z")

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