# Help with Parent/Child (gist included!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 13, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-parent-child-gist-included/5583 "2011-10-13T03:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/paul_smith/32/1323_2.png) [@Paul\_Smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paul_Smith)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-parent-child-gist-included/5583/1 "2011-10-13T03:00:34Z")
Hey all, a while back I posted this question about Parent/Child use case: [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Parent-Child-use-case-td3347346.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Parent-Child-use-case-td3347346.html) I've created a gist curl example to walk anyone through the thing I'm trying to do: > In essense, I have 2 types, a 'doc' (parent) and a 'filecontent' (child) within the same index. I'd like to be able to search both types in 1 query, but if a match is found on the child, the results come back with the parent record only, with all results sorted by fields in the parent. I've got multiple issues here: a) the final search query doesn't work, so clearly I have no idea what I'm doing with respect to this top\_children query b) i'm not sure if I'm misinterpretting the way the parent/child is supposed to work I've set the child mapping to point to the parent type as indicated in the docs for the \_parent type. I'm presuming the routing is then taken care of so the indexing of the child filecontent record can be routed to the same shard as the parent (doc) record for searching later on. I've tried hard to read the docs in elasticsearch on the parent/child mapping, and I maybe just a bonehead here. This is a fairly critical use case for us in the future, we don't index the file content at the moment because it's hundreds of millions of records and an awful lot of content, so do not want continuous meta-data record changes being indexed to require retrieving and indexing file content over and over and over again. Many thanks to anyone that can help here. cheers, Paul Smith ---
**Author:** ![micuenta99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@micuenta99](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/micuenta99)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-parent-child-gist-included/5583/2 "2011-11-15T16:24:20Z")
Hi Paul, I also am interested in this scenario ( 'doc' (parent) and a 'filecontent' (child)) At the end how you did it do? Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/paul_smith/32/1323_2.png) [@Paul\_Smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paul_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-parent-child-gist-included/5583/3 "2011-11-20T01:10:10Z")
Still haven't solved this but only because I have not brought myself back to working on this (for us it's a bit of a longer term project, not pressing need right this second). On 16 November 2011 03:24, micuenta99 [micuenta99@gmail.com](mailto:micuenta99@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I also am interested in this scenario ( 'doc' (parent) and a 'filecontent' > (child)) > At the end how you did it do? > > Thanks, > > -- > View this message in context: > [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Help-with-Parent-Child-gist-included-tp3417592p3510186.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Help-with-Parent-Child-gist-included-tp3417592p3510186.html) > Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-parent-child-gist-included/5583/4 "2017-07-06T03:48:11Z")