# Term query question

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-question/4889>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 18, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-question/4889 "2011-07-18T21:50:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![erik\_seilnacht](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/erik_seilnacht/32/3139_2.png) [@erik\_seilnacht](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erik_seilnacht)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-question/4889/1 "2011-07-18T21:50:25Z")

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I have an indexed document like this:

{  
"\_index" : "ion",  
"\_type" : "erik",  
"\_id" : "tSYlpvzBSvaD5RBInq4\_Qg",  
"\_score" : 7.800599, "_source" : {"message":{"text":"Scheduler scheduler_$\_NON\_CLUSTERED started."},"timestamp":"2011-06-24T22:16:55.532Z","priority":"INFO","fields":{"domain":"erik","serverId":"2ae3e122-6c52-41ce-a11f-75502e744898"}}  
}

When I run a term query on the fields.domain field, I see results...

{ "query" : { "term" : { "fields.domain" : "erik"} } }

However, when I run a term query on the fields.serverId field, I get nothing...

{ "query" : { "term" : { "fields.serverId" : "2ae3e122-6c52-41ce-a11f-75502e744898"} } }

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

-Erik

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**Author:** ![erik\_seilnacht](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/erik_seilnacht/32/3139_2.png) [@erik\_seilnacht](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erik_seilnacht)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-question/4889/2 "2011-07-18T21:58:06Z")

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I see the field is split on the dashes...

I can remove them, or it sounds like I may be able to get around this with a custom mapping for this field ?

Thanks,

-Erik

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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, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-question/4889/3 "2017-07-06T04:00:14Z")

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