# Has\_child query doesn't return all results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-doesnt-return-all-results/6997
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 14, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-doesnt-return-all-results/6997 "2012-03-14T13:55:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Christian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-doesnt-return-all-results/6997/1 "2012-03-14T13:55:04Z")
Hello,
I'm pretty new to ElasticSearch, so I suspect I'm doing something wrong
here. My index contains a record type and a field type (with \_parent ==
record). I can search for fields and get results back correctly. I can
also ask for the \_parent of the field and see that it correctly maps to a
record. However, when I search for a record with a has\_child query that is
exactly the same as my field query that works correctly, it sometimes will
not return any results. It's not a constant thing either. A has\_child
query for some fields works just fine but for other fields returns nothing.
Here is a gist with a really simplified version of my index:
[https://gist.github.com/2036598](https://gist.github.com/2036598)
Christian
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### Author:  [@Christian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-doesnt-return-all-results/6997/2 "2012-03-14T17:27:24Z")
Ah forget it. I changed the child objects to nested objects and now I can
query it like I want. Thanks.
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:55:04 AM UTC-4, Christian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm pretty new to Elasticsearch, so I suspect I'm doing something wrong
> here. My index contains a record type and a field type (with \_parent ==
> record). I can search for fields and get results back correctly. I can
> also ask for the \_parent of the field and see that it correctly maps to a
> record. However, when I search for a record with a has\_child query that is
> exactly the same as my field query that works correctly, it sometimes will
> not return any results. It's not a constant thing either. A has\_child
> query for some fields works just fine but for other fields returns nothing.
> Here is a gist with a really simplified version of my index:
>
> [https://gist.github.com/2036598](https://gist.github.com/2036598)
>
> Christian
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-doesnt-return-all-results/6997/3 "2017-07-06T03:36:06Z")