# Calling a pipeline on deletion operations
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-a-pipeline-on-deletion-operations/187116
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 24, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-a-pipeline-on-deletion-operations/187116 "2019-06-24T12:13:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jetnet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jetnet)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-a-pipeline-on-deletion-operations/187116/1 "2019-06-24T12:13:00Z")
hello All,
quick question: can we call a pipeline on document deletion?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@jetnet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jetnet)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-a-pipeline-on-deletion-operations/187116/2 "2019-06-24T12:31:17Z")
found a [post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-document-in-elastic-in-ingest-based-on-condition/110838/2) regarding that:
> Filebeat and ingest pipeline are data ingestion components and they can't be used to delete documents.
is there still no workaround to do that?
I change the document ID in the ingest pipeline when indexing documents. So, I'd like to change the document ID in the same way when deleting.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot!
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### Author:  [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-a-pipeline-on-deletion-operations/187116/3 "2019-06-24T17:25:32Z")
> [@jetnet](#):
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> is there still no workaround to do that?
I find it hard that there will ever be any workaround for this. These components are from _ingest layer_ so, as per design, they will always serve to ingest data into the cluster, never delete.
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### Author:  [@jetnet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jetnet)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-a-pipeline-on-deletion-operations/187116/4 "2019-06-25T07:04:11Z")
if "per design" is not given by God, then it could be changed, I guess 🙂
But seriously, it'd be logically, if deletion requests could be manipulated in ES as well.
Or, am I only the one, who finds that useful?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-a-pipeline-on-deletion-operations/187116/5 "2019-07-23T07:04:15Z")
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