# Customize field name in dynamic template

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-field-name-in-dynamic-template/17553>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 16, 2014, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-field-name-in-dynamic-template/17553 "2014-05-16T12:24:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dionysus1016](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dionysus1016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dionysus1016)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-field-name-in-dynamic-template/17553/1 "2014-05-16T12:24:30Z")

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Hi All,

Can I customize filed name in dynamic template? For example, I have  
fields like "twitter\_title", "twitter\_body","blog\_title","blog\_body" , and  
there could be more fields with format "xxx\_title","xxx\_body" which are  
added from front-end, then I want mapping "twitter\_title" and  
"twitter\_body"to field “twitter”, mapping "xxx\_title" and "xxx\_body" to  
"xxx", are there any way for this kind of mapping?

I find there are some sample dynamic templates which append string to field  
name, but I request to truncate field name..., here is sample to append  
string to field name.

dynamic\_templates" : [  
{  
"string\_template" : {  
"match" : "\*",  
"match\_mapping\_type" : "string",  
"mapping" : {  
"type" : "multi\_field",  
"fields" : {  
"{name}" : {"type": "string", "index" :  
"analyzed", "analyzer" : "default", "store" : "false"},  
"untouched" : {"type": "string", "index" :  
"analyzed", "analyzer" : "default", "store" : "false"}

```
               }
           }
       }
     }                                                         
   ]

```

Thanks!  
Jun

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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 6, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-field-name-in-dynamic-template/17553/2 "2017-07-06T01:28:56Z")

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