# Delete field mapping

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-field-mapping/70756>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-field-mapping/70756 "2017-01-06T07:15:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Selvam\_ayyanar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/selvam_ayyanar/32/11101_2.png) [@Selvam\_ayyanar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Selvam_ayyanar)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-field-mapping/70756/1 "2017-01-06T07:15:48Z")

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Hi all,

Is there any way to delete the particular field mapping alone from the mapping type?

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**Author:** ![chenjinyuan87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@chenjinyuan87](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenjinyuan87)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-field-mapping/70756/2 "2017-01-06T08:00:38Z")

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I think no. And i'm interesting in this feature..  
In 5.0, I disabled the auto mapping to avoid adding wrong fields in to the index.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-field-mapping/70756/3 "2017-01-07T10:03:20Z")

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There is not, no.

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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:** [February 4, 2017, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-field-mapping/70756/4 "2017-02-04T10:03:29Z")

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