# Parent Child Example Woes **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 8, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-child-example-woes/68386 "2016-12-08T01:37:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tiggyboo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@tiggyboo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiggyboo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-child-example-woes/68386/1 "2016-12-08T01:37:22Z")
I'm an absolute ES beginner. I've been trying to create a parent child relationship with some of my data using this example: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/indexing-parent-child.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/indexing-parent-child.html) I couldn't make it work in Sense and finally tried the example itself, and it also failed. In all cases, the error was: "type": "illegal\_argument\_exception", "reason": "Can't specify parent if no parent field has been configured" I'm using ES version 2.4.2 . Is there perhaps a more up to date version of the example anyone is aware of? Thanks, Al ---
**Author:** ![tiggyboo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@tiggyboo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiggyboo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-child-example-woes/68386/2 "2016-12-08T23:18:25Z")
I found that the example code I was trying to run was for some version later than 2.4.2. It ran fine with 5+. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-child-example-woes/68386/3 "2017-01-05T23:18:24Z")
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