# Start with alphabates when applied sort

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-with-alphabates-when-applied-sort/199089>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-with-alphabates-when-applied-sort/199089 "2019-09-11T14:18:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-with-alphabates-when-applied-sort/199089/2 "2019-09-11T16:20:17Z")

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Could you provide a full recreation script as described in [About the Elasticsearch category](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will help to better understand what you are doing. Please, try to keep the example as simple as possible.

A full reproduction script will help readers to understand, reproduce and if needed fix your problem. It will also most likely help to get a faster answer.

A wild guess is that you are sorting on a `text` field instead of `keyword` field. Which might indicate that you are using an old version.

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