# Is it possible for document mappings to be inherited
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-document-mappings-to-be-inherited/17643
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 21, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-document-mappings-to-be-inherited/17643 "2014-05-21T11:30:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Ben\_George](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ben_George)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-document-mappings-to-be-inherited/17643/1 "2014-05-21T11:30:08Z")
I have a document type with some complicated field mappings, and another
with same mappings plus one extra field.
So question: is there a way to inherit field mappings ? What options do I
have so I don't copy paste field mappings into each document type ?
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### Author:  [@Ben\_George](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ben_George)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-document-mappings-to-be-inherited/17643/2 "2014-05-21T12:01:51Z")
This is similar to dynamic templates[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/custom-dynamic-mapping.html#dynamic-templates](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/custom-dynamic-mapping.html#dynamic-templates),
except I want to match on type eg: "my\_type\*", so that my\_type and
my\_type\_extra\_field get the same mappings.
On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 12:30:08 UTC+1, Ben George wrote:
> I have a document type with some complicated field mappings, and another
> with same mappings plus one extra field.
>
> So question: is there a way to inherit field mappings ? What options do I
> have so I don't copy paste field mappings into each document type ?
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### Author:  [@Ben\_George](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ben_George)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2014, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-document-mappings-to-be-inherited/17643/3 "2014-05-21T12:02:46Z")
What I want to do is similar to dynamic templates[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/custom-dynamic-mapping.html#dynamic-templates](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/custom-dynamic-mapping.html#dynamic-templates),
except I want to match on type eg: "my\_type\*", so that my\_type and
my\_type\_extra\_field get the same field mappings.
On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 12:30:08 UTC+1, Ben George wrote:
> I have a document type with some complicated field mappings, and another
> with same mappings plus one extra field.
>
> So question: is there a way to inherit field mappings ? What options do I
> have so I don't copy paste field mappings into each document type ?
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-document-mappings-to-be-inherited/17643/4 "2014-05-22T17:45:37Z")
Look into index templates with ordering. You can perhaps achieve what you
are looking for if you can restrict the match wildcard.
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ben George [bengeorge@gmail.com](mailto:bengeorge@gmail.com) wrote:
> What I want to do is similar to dynamic templates[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/custom-dynamic-mapping.html#dynamic-templates](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/custom-dynamic-mapping.html#dynamic-templates),
> except I want to match on type eg: "my\_type\*", so that my\_type and
> my\_type\_extra\_field get the same field mappings.
>
> On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 12:30:08 UTC+1, Ben George wrote:
>
> > I have a document type with some complicated field mappings, and another
> > with same mappings plus one extra field.
> >
> > So question: is there a way to inherit field mappings ? What options do
> > I have so I don't copy paste field mappings into each document type ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-document-mappings-to-be-inherited/17643/5 "2017-07-06T01:27:35Z")