# Allowing child document to choose parent type at index time?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allowing-child-document-to-choose-parent-type-at-index-time/52978
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 16, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allowing-child-document-to-choose-parent-type-at-index-time/52978 "2016-06-16T10:54:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Mohannad\_Saeed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohannad_Saeed)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allowing-child-document-to-choose-parent-type-at-index-time/52978/1 "2016-06-16T10:54:52Z")
Greetings,
I am not asking how to have multiple parents for a single child.
Rather, I am asking how to associate a child document to a parent that can be either of type X, Y, or Z? So still a single parent for the child document but chosen from multiple types at index time.
Is this possible at all?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allowing-child-document-to-choose-parent-type-at-index-time/52978/2 "2016-06-16T12:58:47Z")
Hey,
as you have to configure the parent in the mapping, you can only configure one type as being the parent.
--Alex
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allowing-child-document-to-choose-parent-type-at-index-time/52978/3 "2017-07-05T22:43:14Z")