# Sorting on an analyzed field **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 29, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-on-an-analyzed-field/4319 "2011-04-29T15:36:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![James\_Cook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@James\_Cook](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/James_Cook)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-on-an-analyzed-field/4319/1 "2011-04-29T15:36:36Z")
We have a field on a document type called title. It is an analyzed field, but when we sort on it, we get a QueryException. I suppose this is caused because ES does not know how to sort the resulting list of tokens. A custom score won't work because this is a alphabetic sorting problem. Are there any recommended ways to work around this limitation? ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-on-an-analyzed-field/4319/2 "2011-04-29T15:42:13Z")
Hi James On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:36 -0400, James Cook wrote: > We have a field on a document type called title. It is an analyzed > field, but when we sort on it, we get a QueryException. I suppose this > is caused because ES does not know how to sort the resulting list of > tokens. You can make it a multi-field and store a not\_analyzed version, then you can sort by that sub-field instead. clint ---
**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, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-on-an-analyzed-field/4319/3 "2017-07-06T04:07:24Z")