# Automatically making text fields aggregatable **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 29, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-making-text-fields-aggregatable/137973 "2018-06-29T13:33:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dbwest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dbwest/32/32631_2.png) [@dbwest](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbwest)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-making-text-fields-aggregatable/137973/1 "2018-06-29T13:33:28Z")
Hi, when we are logging our fields for many things come in as 'Text'. We use the bulk import and ndjson. We want them to be 'Keyword's so they are aggregatable. Is there an automatic way to do this. Currently we pull down the index and change everything manually. How can we have this done automatically. ---
**Author:** ![jalogisch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jalogisch/32/90844_2.png) [@jalogisch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jalogisch)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-making-text-fields-aggregatable/137973/2 "2018-07-02T10:57:36Z")
you want to use a dynamic template / custom mapping for that: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/dynamic-templates.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/dynamic-templates.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-making-text-fields-aggregatable/137973/3 "2018-07-30T10:57:39Z")
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