# Span Multi with range query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-multi-with-range-query/102213>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-multi-with-range-query/102213 "2017-09-29T06:31:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![pravekal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@pravekal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pravekal)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-multi-with-range-query/102213/1 "2017-09-29T06:31:02Z")

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Hi All,

I am trying to do date range query within span\_multi but I get below error. Any suggestions ?

Error : "unsupported\_operation\_exception: unsupported inner query, should be org.apache.lucene.search.MultiTermQuery but was org.apache.lucene.search.IndexOrDocValuesQuery"

Query

{  
"query": {  
"span\_multi":{  
"match":{  
"range" : {  
"ts" : {  
"gt" : "2017",  
"format": "dd/MM/yyyy||yyyy"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![jimczi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jimczi/32/47985_2.png) [@jimczi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jimczi)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-multi-with-range-query/102213/2 "2017-10-06T06:53:28Z")

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The `span_multi` accepts only multi-terms queries like `prefix`, `wildcard` or `regexp`. It also accepts the `range` query but only if the field is a `keyword` or `text` field. Span queries need to access the position of each match and `numeric` and `date` fields do not record this information.

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**Author:** ![pravekal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@pravekal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pravekal)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-multi-with-range-query/102213/3 "2017-10-20T20:28:02Z")

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Thanks for clarification.

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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:** [November 17, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-multi-with-range-query/102213/4 "2017-11-17T20:28:05Z")

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