# Nested (facet within facet) Facets - Is it possible?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-facet-within-facet-facets-is-it-possible/10363>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 16, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-facet-within-facet-facets-is-it-possible/10363 "2013-01-16T01:16:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![roytmana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/roytmana/32/44855_2.png) [@roytmana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/roytmana)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-facet-within-facet-facets-is-it-possible/10363/1 "2013-01-16T01:16:13Z")

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Is it possible facet on multiple nested facets or fields like SQL group by  
on multiple fields?

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**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-facet-within-facet-facets-is-it-possible/10363/2 "2013-01-16T01:51:44Z")

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Not supported as of now. See

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/1076>
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> This seems to be a popular request. This feature would allow hierarchical facet…s on fields that are not necessarily numeric, thus allowing faceting that looks like this, for example:
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> Media Type Facets:
> \- twitter (20)
> - source: foo (12)
> - source: bar (8)
> \- facebook (14)
> - source: foo (10)
> - source: bar (4)

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:16 PM, AlexR [roytmana@gmail.com](mailto:roytmana@gmail.com) wrote:

> Is it possible facet on multiple nested facets or fields like SQL group by  
> on multiple fields?
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**Author:** ![roytmana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/roytmana/32/44855_2.png) [@roytmana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/roytmana)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-facet-within-facet-facets-is-it-possible/10363/3 "2013-01-16T01:56:01Z")

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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, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-facet-within-facet-facets-is-it-possible/10363/4 "2017-07-06T02:56:14Z")

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