# Create mapping
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 14, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401 "2017-04-14T10:12:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ToujouAya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ToujouAya)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/1 "2017-04-14T10:12:20Z")
Elasticsearch version: 5.3.0
Plugins installed: []
JVM version: 1.8.0\_121
OS version: windows 10
Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:
There is my mapping code created in PHP
```auto
'mappings' => [
'items' => [
'attributes' => [
'type' => 'string'
]
]
]
```
attributes property is an object like this
{ title : '', 'description' }
I want to sort in the title . But it show the error that I need to enable fielddata of titile.
I have changed the config mapping many time but it's not working.
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I used basemkhirat/elasticsearch package to connect to elasticsearch serve.
Does anyone have any idea to solve this case?
Please help me. Sorry for my English
Thank you .
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/2 "2017-04-14T10:47:07Z")
I guess you will want to do this instead if you only need to perform exact matching and sorting on this field.
```auto
'mappings' => [
'items' => [
'attributes' => [
'type' => 'keyword'
]
]
]
```
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### Author:  [@ToujouAya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ToujouAya)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/3 "2017-04-17T04:05:57Z")
Thank you for your reply. Actually my attributes item is object contain some properties like that
`'attributes' : { 'tittle' : '', 'des': '' }`
I thought i need to change the mapping config , push the attribute properties inside the attribute like this:
```
`'mappings' => ['items' => ['attributes' => ['type' => 'string' , 'fields' => ['title' => ['type' => 'keyword']]] ]]`
```
But it is not work,May be it is not correct.
So i have changed the mapping again move the these properties to outside the attributes item . Make it is like item.
```
`mappings => ['items' => ['title' => ['type' => 'keyword', 'fielddata' => true]]]`
```
with that config I can sort the title.
But i don't know this way is best config or not
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/4 "2017-04-18T08:06:11Z")
It looks good to me, I would just remove the `fielddata => true` part, which should not be necessary.
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### Author:  [@ToujouAya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ToujouAya)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/5 "2017-04-18T08:12:18Z")
If i remove the `fileddata => true` I can't sort for `title` or `des` it always show error that I need to enable `fielddata`
```
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [title] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory."}],"type":"search_phase_execution_exception","reason":"all shards failed","phase":"query","grouped":true,"failed_shards":[{"shard":0,"index":"item_index","node":"a3gMQwzKRZutgHZI7qC4bA","reason":{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [title] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory."}}],"caused_by":{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [title] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory."}},"status":400}
```
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/6 "2017-04-18T08:37:55Z")
It means that `type: keyword` is being ignored somehow and you field is actually mapped as `type:text`.
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### Author:  [@ToujouAya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ToujouAya)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/7 "2017-04-18T08:59:11Z")
Oh I missed some point.
Your way works correct. Thanks
Could you give me some idea,
I used regexp to searching, If I config mapping like you said but I can't get any research
if i used my config I can get result
My config
```
{ "item_index": {
"mappings": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"description": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword"
}
},
"analyzer": "standard",
"fielddata": true
},
"image": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword"
}
},
"analyzer": "standard",
"fielddata": true
},
"menus": {
"type": "long"
},
"name": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"title": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword"
}
},
"analyzer": "standard",
"fielddata": true
}
}
}
} }}
```
param query regex at this link [Query params](https://pastebin.com/TnPVCt2B)
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### Author:  [@basemkhirat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/basemkhirat)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/8 "2017-04-28T14:09:15Z")
Please upgrade your package to version 1.0
This is how you can set your mappings
```auto
"mappings" => [
"items" => [
"properties" => [
"title" => [
"type" => "string"
]
]
]
]
```
In other point please note that in earlier versions, the artisan command `php artisan es:indices:create` & `php artisan es:indices:update` were linked with properties key directly so such as `_all` key and other keys out of properties key scope caused errors and not worked
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-mapping/82401/9 "2017-05-26T14:14:02Z")
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