[DOCS] Additional documentation for _score accessing

Closes #7043 Conflicts: docs/reference/modules/scripting.asciidoc
elastic · Sep 11, 2014 · cccef6a · cccef6a
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diff --git a/docs/reference/modules/scripting.asciidoc b/docs/reference/modules/scripting.asciidoc
@@ -302,9 +302,8 @@ There are a few limitations relative to other script languages:
 [float]
 === Score
 
-In all scripts that can be used in facets, the current
-document's score is accessible in `doc.score`.  When using a `script_score`,
-the current score is available in `_score`.
+In all scripts that can be used in aggregations, the current
+document's score is accessible in `_score`.
 
 [float]
 === Computing scores based on terms in scripts
@@ -408,6 +407,13 @@ are much slower to access compared with document fields, as they are not
 loaded into memory. They can be simply accessed using
 `_fields['my_field_name'].value` or `_fields['my_field_name'].values`.
 
+[float]
+=== Accessing the score of a document within a script
+
+When using scripting for calculating the score of a document (for instance, with
+the `function_score` query), you can access the score using the `_score`
+variable inside of a Groovy script.
+
 [float]
 === Source Field
 

diff --git a/docs/reference/search/aggregations/metrics/tophits-aggregation.asciidoc b/docs/reference/search/aggregations/metrics/tophits-aggregation.asciidoc
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ relevancy order of the most relevant document in a bucket.
         },
         "top_hit" : {
           "max": {
-            "script": "_doc.score"
+            "script": "_score"
           }
         }
       }