# Curator: create indicies in advance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-create-indicies-in-advance/56461>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 27, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-create-indicies-in-advance/56461 "2016-07-27T00:56:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mhughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@mhughes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mhughes)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-create-indicies-in-advance/56461/1 "2016-07-27T00:56:30Z")

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Is there any way to do date math in Curator? I have daily indicies. I know about templates, but there are certain things you can't do with templates.

Specifically, I want to create: index-%Y-%m-${tomorrow} with alias-v3-%Y-%m-${tomorrow}.

I tried %{d+1} but that did not work.

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**Author:** ![DiscussBuster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/discussbuster/32/11042_2.png) [@DiscussBuster](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DiscussBuster)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-create-indicies-in-advance/56461/2 "2016-07-27T01:16:04Z")

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Out of curiosity, what would you like to do with that templates can't do?

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**Author:** ![mhughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@mhughes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mhughes)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-create-indicies-in-advance/56461/3 "2016-07-27T03:04:35Z")

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I want to have an alias with the same date as the index. You can use dates  
and date math in the index name, but does that work for aliases too?

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**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-create-indicies-in-advance/56461/4 "2016-07-27T03:59:11Z")

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It's already got a [feature request issue](https://github.com/elastic/curator/issues/511)

It will be added at some point. [https://github.com/elastic/curator/issues/511#issuecomment-214523710](https://github.com/elastic/curator/issues/511#issuecomment-214523710)

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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 5, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-create-indicies-in-advance/56461/5 "2017-07-05T22:32:39Z")

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