# \_parent in the fields search to return more than the "id" **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 11, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-parent-in-the-fields-search-to-return-more-than-the-id/4213 "2011-04-11T16:46:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gitfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gitfy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gitfy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-parent-in-the-fields-search-to-return-more-than-the-id/4213/1 "2011-04-11T16:46:16Z")
is it possible to return more information about the parent in the child. Just limiting to the "id" information alone seems to less useful. I am trying to do something like this. I am modeling opportunities which are related to customers. So what i want to do is, whenever i query for opportunities, i would like to get more information about the customer data in the opportunity search list (like name and address etc). Also, another question with respect to parent/child. Is the mapping that related parent - child relations, the name "\_parent" - is this something predefined and hardwired in the code or can i defined any name for this relation. I am trying to do more like associations in my use case, so that i can have opportunities associated to customers and also opportunities associated with users who deals with them. I wanted to defined the metadata with multiple association to different types and publish opportunities against these associations. How can i achieve this ? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-parent-in-the-fields-search-to-return-more-than-the-id/4213/2 "2017-07-06T04:08:34Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:08am UTC