# Search items in several \`steps\`

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-items-in-several-steps/56977>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 2, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-items-in-several-steps/56977 "2016-08-02T08:56:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![achenchik\_nexters](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/achenchik_nexters/32/11157_2.png) [@achenchik\_nexters](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/achenchik_nexters)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-items-in-several-steps/56977/1 "2016-08-02T08:56:03Z")

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Hello everyone,

I'm a new to ElasticSearch and can have a really stupid questions, but anyway during last several hours I'm unable to find a solution for my relatively typical situation:

Let's say I have logs from a backend application with difference types of user-events: Registration, New Connections, other actions.

Using Logstash I push all this data to ElasticSearch and want to make a filter to find user actions by registration parameters.

How can I make a `nested` (I can't tell that this is the right word for it) filters?

Exampe:

1. I want to find userIDs by specific Location (GeoIP) of Registration.
2. And then I want to see user actions lines filtered using these userIDs and action type (let's say Logout).

Thanks,  
Andrey

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-items-in-several-steps/56977/2 "2016-08-02T08:59:41Z")

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You can't do that as it's like a join in an RDBMS.

You'd need to do two separate queries.

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**Author:** ![achenchik\_nexters](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/achenchik_nexters/32/11157_2.png) [@achenchik\_nexters](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/achenchik_nexters)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-items-in-several-steps/56977/3 "2016-08-02T09:13:10Z")

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Thanks for your answer! So is there any way to connect those? Or I need to do a manual copy paste into another queue?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-items-in-several-steps/56977/4 "2016-08-02T09:28:20Z")

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It's be external to ES, so in your code.

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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 5, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-items-in-several-steps/56977/5 "2017-07-05T22:30:56Z")

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