# Limiting an index to only one field **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 27, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-an-index-to-only-one-field/6523 "2012-01-27T11:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Gonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@Daniel\_Gonzalez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Gonzalez)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-an-index-to-only-one-field/6523/1 "2012-01-27T11:22:24Z")
Hello. I have trouble setting up an index to index only one field from a CouchDB river. It is a very simple use case: - clean ES installation - one CouchDB river - one index - one mapping with one type, with only one field defined. This is what I do: [https://gist.github.com/1688268](https://gist.github.com/1688268). As you can see in a comment attached to the gist, when I do a search I see that _all_ fields have been indexed. This is not what I want: I only want to index field "note\_text" (which is the only one relevant for search). Thanks, Daniel Gonzalez ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-an-index-to-only-one-field/6523/2 "2012-01-27T11:27:17Z")
I think that you should use a script to filter your couchDb document. See here : [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-couchdb/blob/master/README.md](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-couchdb/blob/master/README.md) HTH David 😉 @dadoonet Le 27 janv. 2012 à 12:22, Daniel Gonzalez [gonvaled@gmail.com](mailto:gonvaled@gmail.com) a écrit : > Hello. > > I have trouble setting up an index to index only one field from a > CouchDB river. > > It is a very simple use case: > > - clean ES installation > - one CouchDB river > - one index > - one mapping with one type, with only one field defined. > > This is what I do: [Setup an Elastic Search index which will index only one field: "note\_text" · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/1688268). > > As you can see in a comment attached to the gist, when I do a search I > see that _all_ fields have been indexed. > This is not what I want: I only want to index field "note\_text" (which > is the only one relevant for search). > > Thanks, > Daniel Gonzalez ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-an-index-to-only-one-field/6523/3 "2012-01-27T11:28:41Z")
Or you can define in ES mapping the other fields with store:no index:no and disable source. David 😉 @dadoonet Le 27 janv. 2012 à 12:22, Daniel Gonzalez [gonvaled@gmail.com](mailto:gonvaled@gmail.com) a écrit : > Hello. > > I have trouble setting up an index to index only one field from a > CouchDB river. > > It is a very simple use case: > > - clean ES installation > - one CouchDB river > - one index > - one mapping with one type, with only one field defined. > > This is what I do: [Setup an Elastic Search index which will index only one field: "note\_text" · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/1688268). > > As you can see in a comment attached to the gist, when I do a search I > see that _all_ fields have been indexed. > This is not what I want: I only want to index field "note\_text" (which > is the only one relevant for search). > > Thanks, > Daniel Gonzalez ---
**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, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-an-index-to-only-one-field/6523/4 "2017-07-06T03:41:17Z")