# Fulltext Index missing numeric properties and arrays
**URL:** https://community.neo4j.com/t/fulltext-index-missing-numeric-properties-and-arrays/8995
**Category:** Cypher
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/fulltext-index-missing-numeric-properties-and-arrays/8995 "2019-07-24T16:48:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@chris3](https://community.neo4j.com/u/chris3)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/fulltext-index-missing-numeric-properties-and-arrays/8995/1 "2019-07-24T16:48:00Z")
Hi everyone,
I have created a fulltext index like so:
`CALL db.index.fulltext.createNodeIndex("ads",["Ad"],["age", "gender", "interests"])`
and I can successfully search for "MALE" for example (value in "gender" which is a String)
BUT:
"age" is a numeric property and for example a range search like "age:[20 TO 30]" does not yield a result
ALSO:
"interests" is a string array property like ["travel", "fashion", "electronics"] and none of these searches yield a result:
"electronics"
"interests:electronics"
"elec\*"
and so on....
_**Are numeric and array properties simply not indexed in the fulltext (Lucene) index or am I missing a config setting to enable this? THX!**_
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### Author:  [@stefan.armbruster](https://community.neo4j.com/u/stefan.armbruster)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/fulltext-index-missing-numeric-properties-and-arrays/8995/2 "2019-07-24T20:53:15Z")
Fulltext indexes in 3.5 do not operate on numeric properties nor on arrays. They are solely for string properties.
For `age` I'd use a string with leading zeros. For `interests` just concatenate its values.
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### Author:  [@chris3](https://community.neo4j.com/u/chris3)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/fulltext-index-missing-numeric-properties-and-arrays/8995/3 "2019-07-25T07:31:26Z")
Hi Stefan, thx for your answer!
Will have to work around....