# Dot expander processor

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-expander-processor/60129>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 9, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-expander-processor/60129 "2016-09-09T02:31:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Larry\_Schrader](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_schrader/32/11839_2.png) [@Larry\_Schrader](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Schrader)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-expander-processor/60129/1 "2016-09-09T02:31:28Z")

</div>

I am running Elastic Stack 5.0 alpha5. It's great that I can now use dotted variables again. At least now an ingest node will accept them but I still need to be able to rename them using an ingest node pipeline. I see in the documentation how to use the dot expander ingest node processor but it is not listed when I list the ingest processors. Am I overlooking something or is the documentation just ahead of the code?

5.0 is great! Thank you for any light you may be able to shed on this.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-expander-processor/60129/2 "2016-09-09T09:45:11Z")

</div>

Hey,

the pull request has only been closed seven days ago, so it is not part of the alpha5 release.

See [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/20078](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/20078)

--Alex

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Larry\_Schrader](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_schrader/32/11839_2.png) [@Larry\_Schrader](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Schrader)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-expander-processor/60129/3 "2016-09-09T13:00:28Z")

</div>

That helps. Another reason to look forward to the beta release. Thank you.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-expander-processor/60129/4 "2017-07-05T22:21:33Z")

</div>