# Is ignore\_unmapped deprecated in ES 6?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-ignore-unmapped-deprecated-in-es-6/158930>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-ignore-unmapped-deprecated-in-es-6/158930 "2018-11-30T15:32:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![cynosureabu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cynosureabu/32/47196_2.png) [@cynosureabu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cynosureabu)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-ignore-unmapped-deprecated-in-es-6/158930/1 "2018-11-30T15:32:20Z")

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I am getting:

"type": "x\_content\_parse\_exception",  
"reason": "[40:9] [field\_sort] unknown field [ignore\_unmapped], parser not found"

But if I remove the field, then i cannot do sort on the query result if result does not have the field

Cannot find any document on this.

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**Author:** ![cynosureabu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cynosureabu/32/47196_2.png) [@cynosureabu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cynosureabu)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-ignore-unmapped-deprecated-in-es-6/158930/2 "2018-11-30T16:14:35Z")

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I switched to

"unmapped\_type" : "date"

and it seems to work.

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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:** [December 28, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-ignore-unmapped-deprecated-in-es-6/158930/3 "2018-12-28T16:14:45Z")

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