<p>Starting with Craft 3.1 the solution is easy. In the field definition there is a new checkbox: "Use this field's value as search keywords". Uncheck and you're done!</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/1AArL.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/1AArL.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p><em>Please note that there was a bug until Craft 3.1.9.1 which prevented this from working. Thanks to Romain poirier and Brandon Kelly (<a href="https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/3837" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/3837</a>).</em></p>

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2019-02-13T21:50:13.540Z
2019-02-13T21:50:13.540Z
Matthias Redl-Mann
<p>I have an event section in my website with a couple of fields on the entries and one of them is a "related events" field where I can select a other event entries to be shown at the end of the page.</p>

<p>I also use the .search() function to search within events and it happens that events are listed in the results of searches for a certain keyword, where the only appearance is within the related events, which is unwanted behavior.</p>

<p>What I need is to exclude this one field where I can select the related events from the search index.</p>

<p>How can this be solved?</p>

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How to exclude certain fields from .search()
# How to exclude certain fields from .search()

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-02-13)

I have an event section in my website with a couple of fields on the entries and one of them is a "related events" field where I can select a other event entries to be shown at the end of the page.

I also use the .search() function to search within events and it happens that events are listed in the results of searches for a certain keyword, where the only appearance is within the related events, which is unwanted behavior.

What I need is to exclude this one field where I can select the related events from the search index.

How can this be solved?

**Tags:** search, field, exclude


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2019-02-13. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Starting with Craft 3.1 the solution is easy. In the field definition there is a new checkbox: "Use this field's value as search keywords". Uncheck and you're done!

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/1AArL.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/1AArL.png)

*Please note that there was a bug until Craft 3.1.9.1 which prevented this from working. Thanks to Romain poirier and Brandon Kelly (<https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/3837>).*


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