# Dazzled and confused with the \_all field in 6.+
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dazzled-and-confused-with-the--all-field-in-6/96822
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 11, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dazzled-and-confused-with-the--all-field-in-6/96822 "2017-08-11T20:01:50Z")
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### Author:  [@anon44344346](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon44344346)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dazzled-and-confused-with-the--all-field-in-6/96822/1 "2017-08-11T20:01:50Z")
They say \_all field will be disabled in 6.0+ , and recommend to use "copy\_to" instead.
I don't know a previous knowledge of the fields that are being submitted, just know a few cases I don't want to be included in the \_all field, say "id", "image\_link"and a few others.
But for any other field, I want to be able to search for it through the \_all field.
I can not use the "copy\_to", because I don't know which name the fields will have.
I've tried using dynamic templates, but I would completely overwrite the default behavior and I don't want that , I just want to "add" the "copy\_to" instruction on top of what the default dynamic mapping mechanism does (i.e., for text fields, add a "keywords" sbfield)
I'm a little stuck here. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dazzled-and-confused-with-the--all-field-in-6/96822/2 "2017-08-11T22:34:30Z")
The reason that we are removing `_all` is that we will have a query that will query all the fields. So the end functionality is the same, just using a more efficient method.
With that in mind, what do you want to do with `_all`?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dazzled-and-confused-with-the--all-field-in-6/96822/3 "2017-09-08T22:34:53Z")
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