# Can we filter document in nested object with user.metadata jobs?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-filter-document-in-nested-object-with-user-metadata-jobs/185876
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [June 14, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-filter-document-in-nested-object-with-user-metadata-jobs/185876 "2019-06-14T14:30:57Z")
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### Author:  [@jonathan\_Dee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jonathan_Dee)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-filter-document-in-nested-object-with-user-metadata-jobs/185876/1 "2019-06-14T14:30:57Z")
Hello,
I'm new on Elastic solutions and i'm actually testing x-pack.
I am searching to filter what can see users in an Elasticsearch index, futhermore I want to filter some document into a nested object.
I will explain a short scenario: We got two users: Alice and Bob Alice work on X and Bob work on Y We got document about Movies : Example: name : Matrix date : 1999 actors : [Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne]
Now I want to filter what can see Alice and Bob in the actors field. By example Keanu Reeves can be seen by who work on X and Laurence Fishburne can be seen by who work on Y.
To do this I am tring to use X-Pack security properties but I have some problems and maybe you will help me.
There is my Index mapping :
```
{"settings": {
"index": {
"number_of_replicas": 0,
"number_of_shards": 1
}
},
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"security_attributes": {
"properties": {
"level": {"type":"short"},
"jobs": {"type":"keyword"},
"min_jobs": {"type":"short"}
}
},
"name":{"type":"text"},
"date":{"type":"text"},
"actors":{"type":"nested",
"properties":{
"security_attributes":{
"properties":{
"level": {"type":"short"},
"jobs": {"type":"keyword"},
"min_jobs": {"type":"short"}
}
},
"name":{ "type": "string"}
}
}
}
}
}'
```
And I try to grant a query template at user roles.
```
{"template":
{"source":"
{"bool":
{"filter":
[{"range":
{"security_attributes.level":
{"lte": "{{_user.metadata.level}}"}}},
{"terms_set":{"security_attributes.jobs":
{"terms":{{#toJson}}_user.metadata.jobs{{toJson}},
"minimum_should_match_field": "security_attributes.min_jobs"}}}]}}"}
}
```
To filter document by roles or jobs that work know I want to filter inside the nested object by jobs but I don't know how I can add this filter to the previous template.
Someone have an idea ?
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### Author:  [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-filter-document-in-nested-object-with-user-metadata-jobs/185876/2 "2019-06-17T01:03:23Z")
I'm afraid this is not possible.
You can control which fields are visible to which users, and you can control which documents are visible to each user, but you cannot filter a field.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-filter-document-in-nested-object-with-user-metadata-jobs/185876/3 "2019-07-15T01:03:33Z")
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