# How to collect node property and relationship property together
**URL:** https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-collect-node-property-and-relationship-property-together/3745
**Category:** Cypher
**Tags:** cypher
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-collect-node-property-and-relationship-property-together/3745 "2018-12-10T22:19:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@henry.macafee](https://community.neo4j.com/u/henry.macafee)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-collect-node-property-and-relationship-property-together/3745/1 "2018-12-10T22:19:38Z")
Hi there! I'm trying to return what I can only best describe as a subquery. For example:
```auto
(a:User)-[:CREATED]->(b:Item)
(c:User)-[r:PURCHASED]->(b)
```
What I'd like to return is something like:
`a.name, b.name, {c.name: r.date}`
as there are multiple c:nodes and r:relationships per b:node.
I've looked into map projections but keep hitting a dead end. Any suggestions?
Thank you for your time
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### Author:  [@andrew\_bowman](https://community.neo4j.com/u/andrew_bowman)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-collect-node-property-and-relationship-property-together/3745/2 "2018-12-10T23:10:08Z")
The tricky part of this is that with Cypher alone you cannot create a map with a dynamic property key (`c.name`), it has to be literal.
There is a workaround you can use with [helper functions from APOC Procedures](https://neo4j-contrib.github.io/neo4j-apoc-procedures/#_map_functions), but make sure you actually need this as it complicates the query.
```auto
MATCH (a:User)-[:CREATED]->(b:Item)
WITH a.name as creator, b.name as item, b
MATCH (c:User)-[r:PURCHASED]->(b)
RETURN creator, item, apoc.map.fromLists([c.name], [r.date]) as purchaser
```
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### Author:  [@henry.macafee](https://community.neo4j.com/u/henry.macafee)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-collect-node-property-and-relationship-property-together/3745/3 "2018-12-10T23:27:59Z")
Awesome, I think this did the trick. Thank you!