# How to store dynamic fields? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 20, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-dynamic-fields/15935 "2014-02-20T23:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnrodey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@johnrodey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrodey)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-dynamic-fields/15935/1 "2014-02-20T23:33:20Z")
I have a hashmap that I want to be searchable and can always have unique keys, let's say my first map is... characteristics=[ "height":"72", "weight":"180", "eyecolor":blue"] The next map may have different values, say... characteristics=[ "brickcolor":"red", "cost":"100000"] I want a user to be able to search for characteristics.brickcolor=brown or characteristics.cost\>=50000. So far I have accomplished this by using nested types, like... "properties":{ "characteristics":{"type":"nested"}, ... This works great for search, but here's my question. How do I store all the fields that get created, without enabling the \_source field? This doesn't seem to work: "properties":{ "characteristics":{"type":"nested", "store":"yes"}, ... Do I need to use dynamic templates? Note that I still want to allow elasticsearch to auto define my types for these fields. Any help is greatly appreciated!!! ---
**Author:** ![johnrodey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@johnrodey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrodey)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-dynamic-fields/15935/2 "2014-02-24T19:34:02Z")
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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-dynamic-fields/15935/3 "2017-07-06T01:47:42Z")