# Terms Query Doesn't work on keywords

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-doesnt-work-on-keywords/172657>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 17, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-doesnt-work-on-keywords/172657 "2019-03-17T04:31:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Gowd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gowd/32/42180_2.png) [@Gowd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gowd)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-doesnt-work-on-keywords/172657/1 "2019-03-17T04:31:43Z")

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I am using a simple mapping with analyzers like below:

```
PUT /risks_keyword/
{
  "mappings": {
    "_doc": {
      "properties": {
        "riskApplicabilityAttributes": {
          "properties": {
            "Locale": {
              "type": "keyword"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },"settings": {
    "index": {
      "analysis": {
        "filter" : {
            "risk_filter" : {
               "type" : "pattern_capture",
               "generate_word_parts": false,
               "preserve_original" : true,
               "patterns" : []
            }
         },
        "analyzer": {
          "risk_analyzer": {
            "tokenizer": "keyword",
            "filter": [
              "lowercase",
              "asciifolding"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

Then, I indexed a doc:

```
POST /risks_keyword/_doc/2?refresh
{
          "Locale": [
            "en-US",
            "en-GB",
            "ja-JP"
          ],
          "Id": "Risk_2"
        }

```

Now I am using a Terms query to search for docs that have particulat locale:

```
GET /risks_keyword/_search
{
  "query": {
    "terms": {
      "Locale": [
        "en-US"
      ]
    }
  }
}

```

But this returns 0 docs. Below 2 queries return the doc:

```
GET /risks_keyword/_search
    {
      "query": {
        "terms": {
          "Locale": [
            "en"
          ]
        }
      }
    }

```

and

```
GET /risks_keyword/_search
        {
          "query": {
            "terms": {
              "Locale": [
                "us"
              ]
            }
          }
        }

```

Ofcourse, the match query works fine but how do I make it work using the Terms query?

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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:** [March 17, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-doesnt-work-on-keywords/172657/2 "2019-03-17T06:47:03Z")

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It's because you defined a mapping for `riskApplicabilityAttributes.Locale` but indexed a field named `Locale`.

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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:** [April 14, 2019, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-doesnt-work-on-keywords/172657/3 "2019-04-14T06:48:35Z")

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