# Disable norms for all fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-norms-for-all-fields/11602
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 16, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-norms-for-all-fields/11602 "2013-04-16T18:58:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Yadu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yadu)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-norms-for-all-fields/11602/1 "2013-04-16T18:58:45Z")
My application doesn't need any kind of boost/score, we do plain boolean
search. So I tried to disable norms at index time using dynamic template
like
"dynamic\_templates" : [
..................................
....................................
,{
"template\_apply\_to\_all\_es\_fields" : {
"match" : "\*",
"mapping" : {
"type": "{dynamic\_type}",
"omit\_norms" : true,
"index\_options" : "docs"
}
}
}
]
when I tried to save document it throws error:
```
{
"error": "MapperParsingException[failed to find type parsed [{dynamic_type}] for [person]]",
"status": 400
}
```
where 'person' is type of document and also the root node in the document.
Is "type": "{dynamic\_type}" is not a correct usage in this case?
Is there any other way to disable norms for all fields including fields of
nested objects?
I know we can disable norms by putting "omit\_norms" : true, "index\_options"
: "docs" on every field mapping.
Thanks for your help!
-Yadu
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### Author:  [@Yadu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yadu)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-norms-for-all-fields/11602/2 "2013-04-16T20:32:50Z")
I ignored the fact that omit\_norms and index\_options are only for string
type. So I added mapping given below for string fields identified
dynamically. Each statically mapped string field requires omit\_norms and
index\_options explicitly in its mapping.
{
"template\_strings\_no\_norms" : {
"mapping" : {
"type" : "string",
"omit\_norms" : true,
"index\_options" : "docs"
},
"match" : "\*",
"match\_mapping\_type" : "string"
}
}
Mappings are as expected now and working fine. But it seems score is still
getting calculated which is weird.
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### Author:  [@Dominik\_Stadler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dominik_Stadler)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2016, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-norms-for-all-fields/11602/3 "2016-12-19T08:06:12Z")
There was a similar discussion at [How to disable "Norms" for all field?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-norms-for-all-field/27232) and the issue at [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/19716](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/19716) discusses this and there seems to be a working example provided there.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-norms-for-all-fields/11602/4 "2017-07-05T22:04:50Z")