# Terms facet question **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 8, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-facet-question/10272 "2013-01-08T22:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![logstashuserx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@logstashuserx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/logstashuserx)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-facet-question/10272/1 "2013-01-08T22:36:13Z")
Hi all, Is it possible to do a terms facet of the terms matching a query (not on the whole field) ? Like doing a terms facet on only the terms what would be highlighted if I used the highlight feature with my query. /DG -- ---
**Author:** ![Igor\_Motov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igor_motov/32/45193_2.png) [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-facet-question/10272/2 "2013-01-09T00:46:28Z")
If you can easily identify the terms and there are not too many of them, you can add a filter facet[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/facets/filter-facet.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/facets/filter-facet.html)for each term. On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:36:13 PM UTC-5, [logsta...@gmail.com](mailto:logsta...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to do a terms facet of the terms matching a query (not on > the whole field) ? Like doing a terms facet on only the terms what would be > highlighted if I used the highlight feature with my query. > > /DG -- ---
**Author:** ![logstashuserx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@logstashuserx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/logstashuserx)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-facet-question/10272/3 "2013-01-09T08:59:32Z")
Thank you for your answer Igor, You mean doing this in two steps ? - a query with highlighting to identify the matching terms - a terms facet with a filter facet consisting of the list of highlighted terms So, is there a way to easily identify all the distinct matching terms of a query (in all the results), to put them in an array ? Additional work would be needed to collect highlighted terms and create an array of them. However, isn't there a way to do what I want in one step ? (a facet on the matching TERMS (not results) of a query) ? Le mercredi 9 janvier 2013 01:46:28 UTC+1, Igor Motov a écrit : > If you can easily identify the terms and there are not too many of them, > you can add a filter facet[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/facets/filter-facet.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/facets/filter-facet.html)for each term. > > On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:36:13 PM UTC-5, [logsta...@gmail.com](mailto:logsta...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Is it possible to do a terms facet of the terms matching a query (not on > > the whole field) ? Like doing a terms facet on only the terms what would be > > highlighted if I used the highlight feature with my query. > > > > /DG -- ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-facet-question/10272/4 "2013-01-09T15:45:43Z")
Unless I understood the original problem incorrectly, you could use a facet with a facet filter, the filter being the original query that determines the terms. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:59 AM, [logstashuserx@gmail.com](mailto:logstashuserx@gmail.com) wrote: > Thank you for your answer Igor, > You mean doing this in two steps ? > > - a query with highlighting to identify the matching terms > - a terms facet with a filter facet consisting of the list of highlighted > terms > So, is there a way to easily identify all the distinct matching terms of a > query (in all the results), to put them in an array ? Additional work would > be needed to collect highlighted terms and create an array of them. > > However, isn't there a way to do what I want in one step ? (a facet on the > matching TERMS (not results) of a query) ? > > Le mercredi 9 janvier 2013 01:46:28 UTC+1, Igor Motov a écrit : > > > If you can easily identify the terms and there are not too many of them, > > you can add a filter facet[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/facets/filter-facet.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/facets/filter-facet.html)for each term. > > > > On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:36:13 PM UTC-5, [logsta...@gmail.com](mailto:logsta...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Is it possible to do a terms facet of the terms matching a query (not on > > > the whole field) ? Like doing a terms facet on only the terms what would be > > > highlighted if I used the highlight feature with my query. > > > > > > /DG > > > > -- -- ---
**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, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-facet-question/10272/5 "2017-07-06T02:57:13Z")