# UpdateByQuery plugin problem
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updatebyquery-plugin-problem/20052
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 2, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updatebyquery-plugin-problem/20052 "2014-10-02T14:05:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Falcon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_Falcon)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updatebyquery-plugin-problem/20052/1 "2014-10-02T14:05:54Z")
I want to update records in ElasticSearch by query. For this purpose I used
UpdateByQuery plugin, but I can't figure out
how to force it to work properly. Here my updateByQuery:
{
"query": {
"term": {
"patix\_id": "87344"
}
},
"script": "ctx.\_source.firstName = "TEST""
}
For it I get this response:
{
ok: true
took: 30
total: 1
updated: 0
indices: [
{
reception: { }
}
]
}
I don't know why this query is not updating anything (_updated: 0_)
although it can find the target row (_total: 1_).
What I'm doing wrong? The updated record ("patix\_id": "87344") surely
exists in ElasticSearch index (reception).
I use 'ElasticSearch 1.3.2' and
'com.yakaz.elasticsearch.plugins/elasticsearch-action-updatebyquery/2.2.0'.
Peter
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updatebyquery-plugin-problem/20052/2 "2017-07-06T00:58:40Z")