# How to Not index a field
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-not-index-a-field/19256
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 13, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-not-index-a-field/19256 "2014-08-13T13:35:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@IronMike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IronMike)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-not-index-a-field/19256/1 "2014-08-13T13:35:52Z")
Is it possible in ElasticSearch?
Assume I have a doc { "field1":value1, "field2":value2 ...}
One of the fields "field2" I would like not to index, basically just store
its content in ElasticSearch and retrieve it when need it.
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-not-index-a-field/19256/2 "2014-08-13T13:39:49Z")
I'm not sure the right way to do it but if you set dynamic to false and
then just send the field it'll be stored but not indexed.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Sam2014 [sabdalla80@gmail.com](mailto:sabdalla80@gmail.com) wrote:
> Is it possible in Elasticsearch?
>
> Assume I have a doc { "field1":value1, "field2":value2 ...}
>
> One of the fields "field2" I would like not to index, basically just store
> its content in Elasticsearch and retrieve it when need it.
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### Author:  [@IronMike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IronMike)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-not-index-a-field/19256/3 "2014-08-13T14:54:32Z")
Is there a link/example of how to do this somewhere?
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:40:16 AM UTC-4, Nikolas Everett wrote:
> I'm not sure the right way to do it but if you set dynamic to false and
> then just send the field it'll be stored but not indexed.
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Sam2014 \<[sabda...@gmail.com](mailto:sabda...@gmail.com) \
>
> > wrote:
>
> > Is it possible in Elasticsearch?
> >
> > Assume I have a doc { "field1":value1, "field2":value2 ...}
> >
> > One of the fields "field2" I would like not to index, basically just
> > store its content in Elasticsearch and retrieve it when need it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-not-index-a-field/19256/4 "2017-07-06T01:08:53Z")