# Appending a table in Index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appending-a-table-in-index/188660>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appending-a-table-in-index/188660 "2019-07-03T09:05:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appending-a-table-in-index/188660/1 "2019-07-03T09:05:47Z")

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Hello,

I want to add a data in the already created index.  
I dont want to reindex the  
I want to append a field and add data to the field.

Any idea  
how toadd

Regards

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appending-a-table-in-index/188660/2 "2019-07-03T09:21:54Z")

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If you want to do that for existing documents it means that you are going to reindex all documents anyway.

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**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appending-a-table-in-index/188660/3 "2019-07-03T09:33:16Z")

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@dadoonet,

Thankyou for the response  
Cant it be like adding a lookup table in the index without reindexing it  
I want to create a new field and add data to that field without reindexing  
any possible way?

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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:** [July 3, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appending-a-table-in-index/188660/4 "2019-07-03T10:26:43Z")

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No there's no way to do that.

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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 31, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appending-a-table-in-index/188660/5 "2019-07-31T10:26:55Z")

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