# Elasticsearch 1.7: specify multiple index template patterns?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 18, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196 "2016-02-18T21:26:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@unknownunknown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/unknownunknown)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196/1 "2016-02-18T21:26:26Z")
I want to use the same template to specify mappings for indices with different patterns. Must I create a separate template file for each one? Attempts to specify more than one pattern have met with failure:
**Approach 1**
This does not seem to match either pattern1 or pattern2:
```
{ ...
"template": "pattern1*|pattern2*"
...}
{code}
```
**Approach 2**
This seems to take the last "template" that was specified.
```
{ ...
"template": "pattern1",
"template":"pattern2"
...
}
```
**Approach 3**
This surprisingly seems to take the last item in the list and ignores the first:
```
{ ...
"template": ["pattern1*", "pattern2*"]
... }
```
Is there a way to do this?
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### Author:  [@Jeferson\_Martins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeferson_Martins)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196/2 "2016-02-18T21:28:46Z")
In my case, I use only one template with:
template: "\*"
and specify the order of "execution"
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### Author:  [@unknownunknown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/unknownunknown)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196/3 "2016-02-18T21:35:01Z")
Can you give a simple example? Are you saying you just have various types not used across multiple indices in the same file?
```
{... "template": "*" ...
"type1" : { ... }
"type2" : {... }
...}
```
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### Author:  [@Jeferson\_Martins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeferson_Martins)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196/4 "2016-02-18T21:38:07Z")
You want specify diferents schemas in same template?
I dont understand your example with type1 and type2.
In my case, I use the same schema for all indices. It is that you want?
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### Author:  [@unknownunknown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/unknownunknown)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196/5 "2016-02-18T21:49:16Z")
I have different types which may have different fields, so index1 may have different fields than index2. So I think my use case could be a little different than the one you've described.
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### Author:  [@unknownunknown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/unknownunknown)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196/6 "2016-02-19T15:04:31Z")
Does anyone have a different thought on this?
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### Author:  [@Jeferson\_Martins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeferson_Martins)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196/7 "2016-02-19T15:59:45Z")
Now I think if you have diferent types make sense have diferent templates.
There's the attribute order that you can specify that template will be use first
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-specify-multiple-index-template-patterns/42196/8 "2017-07-05T23:14:51Z")