# Elasticsearch remove column/attribute from a document
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-remove-column-attribute-from-a-document/151786
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-remove-column-attribute-from-a-document/151786 "2018-10-10T08:14:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Waleed\_Malik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Waleed_Malik)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-remove-column-attribute-from-a-document/151786/1 "2018-10-10T08:14:21Z")
Hi,
I am using elastic-search Java API in my spring application. I have created multiple elastic-search repositories in it. Now what i want to do is against a certain repository lets say TestRepository, i want to remove a certain attribute from all its columns.
For example, TestRepository has column A and B, and the data is already stored in elastic-search i want to remove column B from all the documents corresponding to this repository. How can i achieve this ?
I have read about Update API but i think that won't be suitable in my scenario since i can't apply that to running instance of my application.
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### Author:  [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-remove-column-attribute-from-a-document/151786/2 "2018-10-11T08:43:06Z")
Hi Waleed,
I would recommend you check out the update-by-query API: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/docs-update-by-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/docs-update-by-query.html)
You could specify a script that would take the existing source object and remove the key corresponding to the field you want to remove from the document.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-remove-column-attribute-from-a-document/151786/3 "2018-11-08T08:43:13Z")
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