# Default template mapping at type level
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-template-mapping-at-type-level/23004
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 31, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-template-mapping-at-type-level/23004 "2015-03-31T11:04:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@aken](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aken)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-template-mapping-at-type-level/23004/1 "2015-03-31T11:04:48Z")
Hallo,
I have 6 types that I would like to keep in the same time-series index. 5
of these types are very similar and so I have defined the common fields in
the _default_ mapping. The 6th is very different and shares very few fields
with the other types: but since the _default_ mapping applies to all types
in the index I have a lot of fields in the mapping for type6 that I don't
need or want. Is there a way around this? I'm looking for a "default" type
that I can derive from (rather than a default mapping at index level), but
this does not seem to exist. Is this correct or is there a workaround?
Regards,
Andrew
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-template-mapping-at-type-level/23004/2 "2017-07-06T00:22:48Z")