# How to Just Update Template Settings?!?!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-just-update-template-settings/117675>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 30, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-just-update-template-settings/117675 "2018-01-30T17:59:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Sanchez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/daniel_sanchez/32/120056_2.png) [@Daniel\_Sanchez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Sanchez)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-just-update-template-settings/117675/1 "2018-01-30T17:59:49Z")

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All I want to do, is update an existing templates settings(number\_of\_shards, number\_of\_replicas, and refresh\_interval). However, the error message I keep getting makes it seem like it wants me to create a new index(keeps prompting for "template" index pattern. I just want to keep all the existing settings(except 3 mentioned above) and not mess with this.

Does anyone out there know, is this possible? Very frustrating because I swear I did that originally a while ago with a new template but with this new version(6.x) being so picky about mappings and only 1 type per index/doc I don't want to mess with any other of my template settings since I finally got them working.

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-just-update-template-settings/117675/2 "2018-02-27T18:00:14Z")

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