# Folder hierarchy in elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 14, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/folder-hierarchy-in-elasticsearch/34588 "2015-11-14T12:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vikas.saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@vikas.saini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas.saini)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/folder-hierarchy-in-elasticsearch/34588/1 "2015-11-14T12:35:21Z")
Actually in my use case i set permissions on folder and the subfolder will inherit those permission from its parent . So the thing i want to know is that is there any way that properties from grandparent and from further parents can be inherited automatically by its children . ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/folder-hierarchy-in-elasticsearch/34588/2 "2015-11-14T14:15:44Z")
This isn't an Elasticsearch question as much as a question about the file system permissions of your operating system. I'm guessing it's Windows in your case, and I'm pretty sure Windows supports multi-level inheritance but only if the immediate parent inherits its permissions from its parent, i.e. given a A\B\C hierarchy, C will only inherit A's permissions if B does it. C can't inherit directly from A. ---
**Author:** ![vikas.saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@vikas.saini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas.saini)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/folder-hierarchy-in-elasticsearch/34588/3 "2015-11-15T05:55:21Z")
No its not related yo file system .actually i am storing documents in elasticsearch like this file system hierarchy .the thing i want to know is that if a change is made in the grandparent will it be automatically reflected in its grandchildren . ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/folder-hierarchy-in-elasticsearch/34588/4 "2015-11-15T06:17:35Z")
Are you talking about parent/child relationships in documents? ---
**Author:** ![vikas.saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@vikas.saini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas.saini)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/folder-hierarchy-in-elasticsearch/34588/5 "2015-11-15T10:01:01Z")
Yes ,but actually I want to know if changes are made in a grandparent then will those changes be reflected in its grandchildren ? I mean does multilevel hierarchy works in elasticsearch .Or is it true that parent child relationship wotks only upto one level . ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/folder-hierarchy-in-elasticsearch/34588/6 "2015-11-16T02:18:25Z")
Right, well there is no such thing as folders in ES so that is why @magnusbaeck didn't understand you. The whole concept of P/C is that you can link the documents, but they are updated discretely. I don't know what sort of changes you are talking about though so it's hard to say. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/folder-hierarchy-in-elasticsearch/34588/7 "2017-07-05T23:38:21Z")