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 ## Elasticsearch 
 
-GeoNetwork provides a full Elasticsearch end-point: ``/srv/api/search/records/_search``
+GeoNetwork provides a full Elasticsearch end-point: `/srv/api/search/records/_search` that requires http `POST`, 
+accepting a payload with an Elasticsearch query.
 
 Reference
 
 -   [Search API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-search.html) (Elasticsearch)
+
+### Query examples
+
+This section provides some query examples. To test them a `POST` request should be sent to the search end-point `/srv/api/search/records/_search` :
+
+  ![](img/swagger-search-endpoint.png)
+
+
+- Query with any field for metadata containing the string `infrastructure`, using a query with Lucene syntax and excluding metadata templates:
+
+  ```json
+  {
+    "query": {
+      "bool": {
+        "must": [
+          {
+            "query_string": {
+              "query": "+anytext: infraestructure "
+            }
+          }
+        ],
+        "filter": [
+          {
+            "term": {
+              "isTemplate": {
+                "value": "n"
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  ```
+
+- Query with any field for metadata containing the string `infrastructure`, using a query with Lucene syntax and excluding metadata templates, returning a subset of the information:
+
+  ```json
+  {
+    "query": {
+      "bool": {
+        "must": [
+          {
+            "query_string": {
+              "query": "+anytext: infraestructure "
+            }
+          }
+        ],
+        "filter": [
+          {
+            "term": {
+              "isTemplate": {
+                "value": "n"
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    "_source": {
+      "includes": [
+        "uuid",
+        "id",
+        "resourceType",
+        "resourceTitle*",
+        "resourceAbstract*"
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+  ```
+
+
+- Query datasets with title containing the string `infrastructure`, using a query with Lucene syntax and excluding metadata templates:
+
+  ```json
+  {
+    "query": {
+      "bool": {
+        "must": [
+          {
+            "query_string": {
+              "query": "+anytext: infraestructure +resourceType:dataset"
+            }
+          }
+        ],
+        "filter": [
+          {
+            "term": {
+              "isTemplate": {
+                "value": "n"
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  ```
+
+- Query datasets with a revision date in June 2019 and excluding metadata templates:
+
+```json
+{
+  "query": {
+    "bool": {
+      "must": [
+        {
+          "term": {
+            "resourceType": {
+              "value": "dataset"
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          "range": {
+            "resourceTemporalDateRange": {
+              "gte": "2019-06-01",
+              "lte": "2019-06-30",
+              "relation": "intersects"
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ],
+      "filter": [
+        {
+          "term": {
+            "isTemplate": {
+              "value": "n"
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```