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Highlighting, Sorting, and Paginating Search Results in Elasticsearch 7.13
When implementing search into applications, there are common user experience features that most people have come to expect nowadays. Search term highlighting, sorting, and pagination are all possible within the Elasticsearch Query DSL. In this hands-on lab, you will get to implement highlighting, sorting, and pagination within search queries.

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Challenge
Craft a Search Query for the Word "life" on the shakespeare Dataset with Pagination, Highlighting, and Sorting
From the Kibana console, craft a search query on the
shakespeare
dataset that meets all of the following requirements:- Matches all documents from the
shakespeare
dataset where some form of the word "life" appears in thetext_entry
field. - Paginates the search results with 25 results per page and displays the first page of results.
- Highlights the matched term(s) with the HTML
<em>
and</em>
tags to emphasize the text. - Sorts the results by relevancy score in descending order.
- Matches all documents from the
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Challenge
Craft a Search Query for the Word "death" on the shakespeare Dataset with Pagination, Highlighting, and Sorting
From the Kibana console, craft a search query on the
shakespeare
dataset that meets all of the following requirements:- Matches all documents from the
shakespeare
dataset where some form of the word "death" appears in thetext_entry
field. - Paginates the search results with 25 results per page and displays the first page of results.
- Highlights the matched term(s) with the HTML
<b>
and</b>
tags to bold the text. - Sorts the results first by
play_name.keyword
thenspeaker.keyword
in ascending order, followed by relevancy score in descending order.
- Matches all documents from the
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Challenge
Craft a Search Query for the Part of "THESEUS" and the Words "life" or "death" on the shakespeare Dataset with Pagination, Highlighting, and Sorting
From the Kibana console, craft a search query on the
shakespeare
dataset that meets all of the following requirements:- Matches all documents from the
shakespeare
dataset where thespeaker.keyword
is "THESEUS" and some form of the word "death" or "life" appears in thetext_entry
field. - Paginates the search results with 10 results per page and displays the first page of results.
- Highlights the matched term(s) with the HTML
<b>
and</b>
tags and the HTML<mark>
and</mark>
tags to both bold and highlight the text. - Sorts the results by
line_id
in ascending order.
- Matches all documents from the
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