# Searching with subdocuments (children or nested or smth else)?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-subdocuments-children-or-nested-or-smth-else/42119
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 18, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-subdocuments-children-or-nested-or-smth-else/42119 "2016-02-18T09:55:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@ddorian43](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ddorian43)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-subdocuments-children-or-nested-or-smth-else/42119/1 "2016-02-18T09:55:01Z")
Hi !,
I have an ecommerce-search I'm building. My problem, is that some products have ALOT of subproducts. Let me explain. The products are clothes. On the clothes I have "Levy jeans Blue" "Levy jeans white" "Levy jeans green", "Levy jeans black", "Levy jeans red" . By my count, only 5% of the products have different variants.
What I want, is that when you search "Levy jeans" only 1 product shows from the whole collection of "Levy jeans" (doesn't matter which color in this case), while if I were to search "blue jeans" I only want the blue one to show from the whole "Levy jeans" collection.
Makes sense ? What would be the best way to implement this?
Should I just store every variant as a separate document and group the products by "master\_product\_id" when searching ? If yes, will this also work with grouping by also another field (I will need sometimes to also group by retailer at the same time).
Or should I use nested ? I don't think I need parent-child ?
Meaning, I want to search the whole library, and then for products that have multiple configurations, I want the highest scored product in that group. Only 5% of the products have multiple variants.
Thank You!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-subdocuments-children-or-nested-or-smth-else/42119/2 "2017-07-05T23:15:20Z")