Yes, that's correct. Depending on your application, it might be easier to have the filters as a dropdown. Similar how sites like Amazon allow you to choose which department to search within. Otherwise you'll have to rely on your users to type in the correct syntax - which might be what you want to allow more flexibility.
On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 11:26:38 AM UTC-4, Peter Sorensen wrote: > > Thanks John & Ivan for your insight. Very helpful. Just to see if I'm > getting this: > > In order to have a search where my users can type "title: {query term}" to > limit the search only to titles, I need to program my application to parse > the query string and then add the additional filters to the ES request. Do > I have this right? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dbf03829-7675-41f2-ae5d-274e246a5fc8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.