# Text search - field include text from kibana query line

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-field-include-text-from-kibana-query-line/130429
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 3, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-field-include-text-from-kibana-query-line/130429 "2018-05-03T10:40:24Z")
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### Author: ![yishain11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/df705f/32.png) [@yishain11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yishain11)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-field-include-text-from-kibana-query-line/130429/1 "2018-05-03T10:40:24Z")

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Hi  
I have a table visualization, and I what it to show the results based on what the use searches for.  
I want the user to be able to search for documents where "someField" INCLUDES (not equals, necessarily) "some\_text".  
When I write this query in kibana's query line: "someField:someText" its returns false, because there is no field with this, and only this, text in it.  
I saw I could search for fields that include someText in a filter - somefiled is on of someText.

My quetion is: can this be done from kibana query line without adding filters everytime I want this kind of search done?  
Thanks

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### Author: ![a5a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-field-include-text-from-kibana-query-line/130429/2 "2018-05-03T16:47:24Z")

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You can do a search like `someField:*someText*`. Can you try that?

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### Author: ![yishain11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/df705f/32.png) [@yishain11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yishain11)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-field-include-text-from-kibana-query-line/130429/3 "2018-05-06T07:50:42Z")

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Works. Thanks!

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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: [June 3, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-field-include-text-from-kibana-query-line/130429/4 "2018-06-03T07:50:45Z")

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