# Iterate over payload fields in Slack action
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iterate-over-payload-fields-in-slack-action/51804
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [June 3, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iterate-over-payload-fields-in-slack-action/51804 "2016-06-03T14:47:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@poznachowski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/poznachowski)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iterate-over-payload-fields-in-slack-action/51804/1 "2016-06-03T14:47:36Z")
Hi,
Can I iterate over ctx.payload.hits in Slack action text field for a specific field? I can use index to get specific one (with `ctx.payload.hits.hits.0._id`), but if there are more hits, is it possible to show all ids of the hits?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iterate-over-payload-fields-in-slack-action/51804/2 "2016-06-06T11:24:45Z")
Hey,
you should check out the [search template documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html)
See this example
```auto
PUT /foo/bar/first-id
{ "foo":"bar"}
PUT /foo/bar/second-id
{ "foo":"bar"}
PUT _xpack/watcher/watch/my-watch
{
"trigger": {
"schedule": {
"interval": "10s"
}
},
"input": {
"http": {
"request": {
"host": "localhost",
"port": 9200,
"path": "/foo/_search"
}
}
},
"actions": {
"logging": {
"logging": {
"text": "{{#ctx.payload.hits.hits}}{{_id}}|{{/ctx.payload.hits.hits}}"
}
}
}
}
```
results in
```auto
[2016-06-06 13:24:22,548][INFO][xpack.watcher.actions.logging] [Cap 'N Hawk] first-id|second-id|
```
Hope this helps!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iterate-over-payload-fields-in-slack-action/51804/3 "2017-07-06T13:45:11Z")