# Has\_child query with multiple clauses

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-with-multiple-clauses/96256>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 8, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-with-multiple-clauses/96256 "2017-08-08T11:38:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Atul\_Bagga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atul_bagga/32/15047_2.png) [@Atul\_Bagga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Atul_Bagga)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-with-multiple-clauses/96256/1 "2017-08-08T11:38:12Z")

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I am trying to query for parent documents containing children which match my query clauses.

Query could be of the form A AND B or A OR B etc.

On forming a query for _find parents where children name or Description contains "word1" AND "word2"_ something like this..

"has\_child": {  
"type": "ChildType",  
"score\_mode": "sum",  
"bool": {  
"must": [  
{  
"multi\_match": {  
"query": "word1",  
"fields": [  
"name",  
"description"  
]  
}  
},  
{  
"multi\_match": {  
"query": "word2",  
"fields": [  
"name",  
"description"  
]  
}  
}]  
},  
"inner\_hits": {  
"size": 2,  
}

I am getting parsing exception "[has\_child] query does not support [bool]". Is there a way to achieve what I am trying to do?

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**Author:** ![Atul\_Bagga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atul_bagga/32/15047_2.png) [@Atul\_Bagga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Atul_Bagga)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-with-multiple-clauses/96256/2 "2017-08-08T11:42:28Z")

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My bad.. the bool query should be enclosed in a "query" and it works.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-child-query-with-multiple-clauses/96256/3 "2017-09-05T11:42:45Z")

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