# Facet on child type
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-on-child-type/7072
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 20, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-on-child-type/7072 "2012-03-20T15:09:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Ridvan\_Gyundogan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ridvan_Gyundogan)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-on-child-type/7072/1 "2012-03-20T15:09:50Z")
Hi guys,
first my gist: [https://gist.github.com/2136557](https://gist.github.com/2136557)
I have ParentType and ChildType, the ParentType s defined as "\_parent"
of ChildType.
I have ChildType.title field and ParentType.titles field.
ParentType.titles is array duplicating the ChildType.title.
I want a facet on the title field which I am currently doing on the
ParentType.titles but now I want to remove this field and define the
facet on the ChildType.title.
Unfortunately I couldn't do the "scope" property of the facet working
- it is just ignored and the facet is always defined on the
ParentType. If I define facet on "titles" property it works if I
define facet on "title" property it doesn't.
Any idea what is wrong with my query?
Somewhere ot the group I found that this should be done with nested
documents but then I am not able to query directly the ChildType.
Any help is very appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Ridvan\_Gyundogan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ridvan_Gyundogan)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2012, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-on-child-type/7072/2 "2012-03-21T07:05:34Z")
Did someone tried facets on parent-child or nested documents?
On Mar 20, 5:09 pm, Ridvan Gyundogan [ridva...@gmail.com](mailto:ridva...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi guys,
> first my gist:[parent child facet using scope · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/2136557)
>
> I have ParentType and ChildType, the ParentType s defined as "\_parent"
> of ChildType.
> I have ChildType.title field and ParentType.titles field.
> ParentType.titles is array duplicating the ChildType.title.
>
> I want a facet on the title field which I am currently doing on the
> ParentType.titles but now I want to remove this field and define the
> facet on the ChildType.title.
>
> Unfortunately I couldn't do the "scope" property of the facet working
>
> - it is just ignored and the facet is always defined on the
> ParentType. If I define facet on "titles" property it works if I
> define facet on "title" property it doesn't.
>
> Any idea what is wrong with my query?
>
> Somewhere ot the group I found that this should be done with nested
> documents but then I am not able to query directly the ChildType.
>
> Any help is very appreciated.
---
### Author:  [@Radu\_Gheorghe1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Radu_Gheorghe1)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-on-child-type/7072/3 "2012-03-24T11:54:23Z")
I didn't, but can you post here your query? Maybe we get lucky and
find out what's wrong with it 🙂
On 21 mar., 09:05, Ridvan Gyundogan [ridva...@gmail.com](mailto:ridva...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Did someone tried facets on parent-child or nested documents?
>
> On Mar 20, 5:09 pm, Ridvan Gyundogan [ridva...@gmail.com](mailto:ridva...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> > first my gist:[parent child facet using scope · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/2136557)
>
> > I have ParentType and ChildType, the ParentType s defined as "\_parent"
> > of ChildType.
> > I have ChildType.title field and ParentType.titles field.
> > ParentType.titles is array duplicating the ChildType.title.
>
> > I want a facet on the title field which I am currently doing on the
> > ParentType.titles but now I want to remove this field and define the
> > facet on the ChildType.title.
>
> > Unfortunately I couldn't do the "scope" property of the facet working
> >
> > - it is just ignored and the facet is always defined on the
> > ParentType. If I define facet on "titles" property it works if I
> > define facet on "title" property it doesn't.
>
> > Any idea what is wrong with my query?
>
> > Somewhere ot the group I found that this should be done with nested
> > documents but then I am not able to query directly the ChildType.
>
> > Any help is very appreciated.
---
### Author:  [@Ridvan\_Gyundogan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ridvan_Gyundogan)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-on-child-type/7072/4 "2012-04-22T17:04:07Z")
Hi Radu,
the query and the mappings are on the gist link.
On Mar 24, 2:54 pm, Radu Gheorghe [radu0gheor...@gmail.com](mailto:radu0gheor...@gmail.com) wrote:
> I didn't, but can you post here your query? Maybe we get lucky and
> find out what's wrong with it 🙂
>
> On 21 mar., 09:05,RidvanGyundogan[ridva...@gmail.com](mailto:ridva...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Did someone tried facets on parent-child or nested documents?
>
> > On Mar 20, 5:09 pm,RidvanGyundogan[ridva...@gmail.com](mailto:ridva...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > > Hi guys,
> > > first my gist:[parent child facet using scope · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/2136557)
>
> > > I have ParentType and ChildType, the ParentType s defined as "\_parent"
> > > of ChildType.
> > > I have ChildType.title field and ParentType.titles field.
> > > ParentType.titles is array duplicating the ChildType.title.
>
> > > I want a facet on the title field which I am currently doing on the
> > > ParentType.titles but now I want to remove this field and define the
> > > facet on the ChildType.title.
>
> > > Unfortunately I couldn't do the "scope" property of the facet working
> > >
> > > - it is just ignored and the facet is always defined on the
> > > ParentType. If I define facet on "titles" property it works if I
> > > define facet on "title" property it doesn't.
>
> > > Any idea what is wrong with my query?
>
> > > Somewhere ot the group I found that this should be done with nested
> > > documents but then I am not able to query directly the ChildType.
>
> > > Any help is very appreciated.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-on-child-type/7072/5 "2017-07-06T03:31:25Z")