# Facet filters on parent fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-filters-on-parent-fields/13910
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 10, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-filters-on-parent-fields/13910 "2013-10-10T19:08:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-filters-on-parent-fields/13910/1 "2013-10-10T19:08:23Z")
It is currently not possible to filter faceted nested documents using
fields from the parent/root document. What workarounds is anyone using?
From my experimentation:
1. Filtered queries (not possible with my use case)
2. multi search (too expensive)
3. add fields to nested documents (too expensive)
4. ???
Tried to come up with a scripted solution but came up empty. This issue is
the first roadblock I have ever faced with elasticsearch. I usually find
some hack around issues! Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Ivan
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-filters-on-parent-fields/13910/2 "2017-07-06T02:12:59Z")