# \_parent missing during mapping
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-parent-missing-during-mapping/16619
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 26, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-parent-missing-during-mapping/16619 "2014-03-26T16:39:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@kayngee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kayngee)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-parent-missing-during-mapping/16619/1 "2014-03-26T16:39:07Z")
Hi,
I'm trying to add a \_ parent with the following mappings but for some
reason the \_parent field gets ignored so when I go to insert a new object
in Elastic search I get an exception that no parent field was specified
anyone knows why this is happening?
Regards
Shawn
"elasticsearch\_tests\_utilityobjects\_searchableentity": {
"properties": {
...
```
},
"_all": {
"enabled": true
}
},
"elasticsearch_tests_utilityobjects_zeepextag": {
"properties": {
"UID": {
"type": "long"
},
"Type": {
"type": "integer"
},
"Tag": {
"fields": {
"Tag": {
"index_options": "offsets",
"type": "string",
"store": "yes"
}
},
"type": "multi_field"
}
},
"_parent": {
"type": "search_tests_utilityobjects_searchableentity"
},
"_all": {
"enabled": true
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-parent-missing-during-mapping/16619/2 "2017-07-06T01:40:29Z")