# Dynamic templates - Any way of accessing a field full path instead of its name?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-templates-any-way-of-accessing-a-field-full-path-instead-of-its-name/237774
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-templates-any-way-of-accessing-a-field-full-path-instead-of-its-name/237774 "2020-06-19T09:29:31Z")
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### Author:  [@ng.software.dev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ng.software.dev)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-templates-any-way-of-accessing-a-field-full-path-instead-of-its-name/237774/1 "2020-06-19T09:29:32Z")
Hi,
I am developping a search engine in which I rely quite heavily on _dynamic templates_, as the underlying data model is dynamic. So I'm using _path\_match_ with regular expressions.
Here's a sample example to get an idea:
```auto
{
"mappings": {
"doc": {
"dynamic": true,
"dynamic_templates": [
{
"fulltext_search_field_A": {
"match_pattern": "regex",
"path_match": "text.field_A\\.value",
"mapping": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": "32766",
"copy_to": "@fulltext.text.field_A",
"fields": { ... }
}
}
},
...
{
"fulltext_search_field_Z": {
"match_pattern": "regex",
"path_match": "text.field_Z\\.value",
"mapping": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": "32766",
"copy_to": "@fulltext.text.field_Z",
"fields": { ... }
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
I need to copy to distinct fields, so in my query I can choose a subset of fields to match, and also I can get a per-field highlighting. The _copy\_to_ target fields are handled by a separate template.
This method works but has issues: the number of fields can be high and this leads to a much bigger cluster state, which can lead to some nasty issues on a shared cluster. For this reason, and for the sake of clarity, I'd like to keep the definitions as succinct as possible.
Moreover, the _mapping_ and _fields_ definitions being the same for all fields, I'd very much like to factorize these into a single dynamic template, so I tried the following:
```auto
{
"mappings": {
"doc": {
"dynamic": true,
"dynamic_templates": [
{
"fulltext_search_fields": {
"match_pattern": "regex",
"path_match": "text.field_(?:A|B|...|Z).value",
"mapping": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": "32766",
"copy_to": "@fulltext.text.{name}",
"fields": { ... }
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
Unfortunatey that doesn't work as expected as all my fields get copied over to a single _@fulltext.text.value_ field! What I'd need here is the field's full path instead of just its name!
The reference doc does not mention it, but Is there a means to achieve this? It would be so useful!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-templates-any-way-of-accessing-a-field-full-path-instead-of-its-name/237774/2 "2020-07-17T09:29:32Z")
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