# Manually creating mappings from existing index templates?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-creating-mappings-from-existing-index-templates/12749>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 10, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-creating-mappings-from-existing-index-templates/12749 "2013-07-10T19:31:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phil\_Marsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@Phil\_Marsh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phil_Marsh)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-creating-mappings-from-existing-index-templates/12749/1 "2013-07-10T19:31:42Z")

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Hi,

I'm using index templates to help generate mappings for similar types. This works great when creating a brand new index, but I will need to manually add new types to the same index in the future (dynamic mapping is disabled).

Is there a way to include fields from index templates when explicitly creating a new mapping?

Thanks

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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, 2:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-creating-mappings-from-existing-index-templates/12749/2 "2017-07-06T02:27:06Z")

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