# I don't suppose there is a way to perform a join when searching multiple indexes is there?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-dont-suppose-there-is-a-way-to-perform-a-join-when-searching-multiple-indexes-is-there/3062>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 1, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-dont-suppose-there-is-a-way-to-perform-a-join-when-searching-multiple-indexes-is-there/3062 "2010-07-01T18:38:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Samuel\_Doyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Samuel\_Doyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Doyle)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-dont-suppose-there-is-a-way-to-perform-a-join-when-searching-multiple-indexes-is-there/3062/1 "2010-07-01T18:38:59Z")

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I was wondering if there is a way to have a value returned in the results  
for the first index be assigned a value to search against in the second  
index?  
I could do this manually in two separate searches but was just wondering if  
this is possible?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-dont-suppose-there-is-a-way-to-perform-a-join-when-searching-multiple-indexes-is-there/3062/2 "2010-07-02T14:01:30Z")

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Nope, you will need to do it manually...

-shay.banon

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Samuel Doyle [samueldoyle@gmail.com](mailto:samueldoyle@gmail.com) wrote:

> I was wondering if there is a way to have a value returned in the results  
> for the first index be assigned a value to search against in the second  
> index?  
> I could do this manually in two separate searches but was just wondering if  
> this is possible?
> 
> Thanks

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-dont-suppose-there-is-a-way-to-perform-a-join-when-searching-multiple-indexes-is-there/3062/3 "2017-07-06T04:22:44Z")

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