# Restricting child result
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-child-result/4758
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 3, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-child-result/4758 "2011-07-03T05:14:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@khoan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/khoan)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-child-result/4758/1 "2011-07-03T05:14:40Z")
index:
{
parent\_field: "this is a parent",
children: [
{child\_field: 12.3},
{child\_field: 9.6},
{child\_field: 4.5}
]
}
Now when I search children.child\_field: [1.3 TO 4.6], I would get the whole document including all children. Is it possible to just retrieve the document with children which matches search criteria, that is:
expecting:
{
parent\_field: "this is a parent",
children: [
{child\_field: 4.5}
]
}
instead of:
{
parent\_field: "this is a parent",
children: [
{child\_field: 12.3},
{child\_field: 9.6},
{child\_field: 4.5}
]
}
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-child-result/4758/2 "2011-07-05T09:34:36Z")
hi
i have the same trouble. how to show the children filtered ?
tx
On 3 juil, 07:14, khoan [huukhoangu...@hotmail.com](mailto:huukhoangu...@hotmail.com) wrote:
> index:
>
> {
> parent\_field: "this is a parent",
> children: [
> {child\_field: 12.3},
> {child\_field: 9.6},
> {child\_field: 4.5}
> ]
>
> }
>
> Now when I search children.child\_field: [1.3 TO 4.6], I would get the whole
> document including all children. Is it possible to just retrieve the
> document with children which matches search criteria, that is:
>
> expecting:
>
> {
> parent\_field: "this is a parent",
> children: [
> {child\_field: 4.5}
> ]
>
> }
>
> instead of:
>
> {
> parent\_field: "this is a parent",
> children: [
> {child\_field: 12.3},
> {child\_field: 9.6},
> {child\_field: 4.5}
> ]
>
> }
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2011, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-child-result/4758/3 "2011-07-05T11:06:01Z")
No, there isn't a way to do it unless you index each child document on its own.
On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Ludovic wrote:
> hi
>
> i have the same trouble. how to show the children filtered ?
>
> tx
>
> On 3 juil, 07:14, khoan \<[huukhoangu...@hotmail.com](mailto:huukhoangu...@hotmail.com) ([http://hotmail.com](http://hotmail.com))\> wrote:
>
> > index:
> >
> > {
> > parent\_field: "this is a parent",
> > children: [
> > {child\_field: 12.3},
> > {child\_field: 9.6},
> > {child\_field: 4.5}
> > ]
> >
> > }
> >
> > Now when I search children.child\_field: [1.3 TO 4.6], I would get the whole
> > document including all children. Is it possible to just retrieve the
> > document with children which matches search criteria, that is:
> >
> > expecting:
> >
> > {
> > parent\_field: "this is a parent",
> > children: [
> > {child\_field: 4.5}
> > ]
> >
> > }
> >
> > instead of:
> >
> > {
> > parent\_field: "this is a parent",
> > children: [
> > {child\_field: 12.3},
> > {child\_field: 9.6},
> > {child\_field: 4.5}
> > ]
> >
> > }
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > --
> > View this message in context:[http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Restricting-child-res](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Restricting-child-res)...
> > Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com) ([http://Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com)).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-child-result/4758/4 "2017-07-06T04:01:45Z")