# Suggesting search terms to search for **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 18, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggesting-search-terms-to-search-for/12842 "2013-07-18T13:26:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andrea\_Tarr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrea_tarr/32/2219_2.png) [@Andrea\_Tarr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrea_Tarr)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggesting-search-terms-to-search-for/12842/1 "2013-07-18T13:26:54Z")
I have been working on an autocomplete function. I can make it work if I am doing an autocomplete on the document itself (i.e. display titles that match criteria as person types). However, what I want to do is suggest different search terms, not the actual documents. For example, if the person types "data" they would see a drop down that said: data data sciences database data visualization data sciences community datastorage I have a shingle analyzer that appropriately creates these tokens (as seen by using a analyze api on sample data) but I don't see how to get at those tokens directly. I looked at using the facets, but what I need to return aren't fields from actual documents, just search tokens created from the document. I played around with the new suggest api, but while it was good at dealing with misspellings, I couldn't see how to use it to suggest a fuller search term/phrase. Am I missing something obvious or isn't this possible? Thanks, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Aaron\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aaron\_Wolf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aaron_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggesting-search-terms-to-search-for/12842/2 "2013-07-23T20:03:33Z")
Hi Andy, I've been searching for the same functionality but not sure it is currently offered in Elasticsearch. My example is searching for "Steroids baseball" would suggest other terms like "Ryan" and "Braun". Bumping this topic to see if someone else has a solution. Thanks, Aaron On Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:26:54 AM UTC-5, Andrea Tarr wrote: > I have been working on an autocomplete function. I can make it work if I > am doing an autocomplete on the document itself (i.e. display titles that > match criteria as person types). However, what I want to do is suggest > different search terms, not the actual documents. > > For example, if the person types "data" they would see a drop down that > said: > data > data sciences > database > data visualization > data sciences community > datastorage > > I have a shingle analyzer that appropriately creates these tokens (as seen > by using a analyze api on sample data) but I don't see how to get at those > tokens directly. > > I looked at using the facets, but what I need to return aren't fields from > actual documents, just search tokens created from the document. > > I played around with the new suggest api, but while it was good at dealing > with misspellings, I couldn't see how to use it to suggest a fuller search > term/phrase. > > Am I missing something obvious or isn't this possible? > > Thanks, > Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggesting-search-terms-to-search-for/12842/3 "2013-07-25T11:25:15Z")
Hi, Why not index those terms and phrases in a separate index and query that during query entry? ## Otis ELASTICSEARCH Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html) Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html) On Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:26:54 PM UTC+2, Andrea Tarr wrote: > I have been working on an autocomplete function. I can make it work if I > am doing an autocomplete on the document itself (i.e. display titles that > match criteria as person types). However, what I want to do is suggest > different search terms, not the actual documents. > > For example, if the person types "data" they would see a drop down that > said: > data > data sciences > database > data visualization > data sciences community > datastorage > > I have a shingle analyzer that appropriately creates these tokens (as seen > by using a analyze api on sample data) but I don't see how to get at those > tokens directly. > > I looked at using the facets, but what I need to return aren't fields from > actual documents, just search tokens created from the document. > > I played around with the new suggest api, but while it was good at dealing > with misspellings, I couldn't see how to use it to suggest a fuller search > term/phrase. > > Am I missing something obvious or isn't this possible? > > Thanks, > Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**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, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggesting-search-terms-to-search-for/12842/4 "2017-07-06T02:24:35Z")