# How to create aliases in index Template for last 7 days? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 1, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-aliases-in-index-template-for-last-7-days/76977 "2017-03-01T12:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yaswanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/94ad74/32.png) [@Yaswanth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yaswanth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-aliases-in-index-template-for-last-7-days/76977/1 "2017-03-01T12:21:02Z")
Hi, How can i able to create aliases in a index Template in such a way it will create alias for last 7 days indices. IS there any way to do that? Because my data comes every day ln a index like `data-jan-2017`, Thanks ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-aliases-in-index-template-for-last-7-days/76977/2 "2017-03-05T23:29:29Z")
You can't remove an alias from an index with a template, but you can add one. To remove them, look at Elasticsearch Curator - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-aliases-in-index-template-for-last-7-days/76977/3 "2017-04-02T23:30:15Z")
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