# Mapping types \_type or type or both
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359 "2019-01-30T12:55:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@gormanst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gormanst)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/1 "2019-01-30T12:55:59Z")
Is type, as used below, being removed from elasticsearch?
```
PUT _template/dogpound_mpds
{
"index_patterns": ["dogpound_mpds*"],
"mappings" : {
"_doc" : {
"dynamic": "true",
"properties": {
"twitter": {"type": "text","fields": {"keyword": {"type": "keyword","ignore_above": 256}}},
"cowboy": {"type": "text","fields": {"keyword": {"type": "keyword","ignore_above": 256}}},
"start": {"type": "date"}
"duration": {"type": "integer"}
}
}
},
"aliases": {
"dogpound_mpds": {}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/2 "2019-01-30T12:57:10Z")
Your formatting is not the best, can you wrap the code in markdown style backticks?
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### Author:  [@gormanst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gormanst)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/3 "2019-01-30T13:05:35Z")
like that?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/4 "2019-01-30T13:14:52Z")
Great, thanks!
The mapping `type` is not going anywhere.
The `_doc` type above is what is changing.
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### Author:  [@gormanst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gormanst)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/5 "2019-01-30T13:18:11Z")
I am trying to prepare for the removal of mapping types.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/removal-of-types.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/removal-of-types.html)
I thought by using "\_doc" I was headed in the right direction?
Can you explain?
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### Author:  [@gormanst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gormanst)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/6 "2019-01-30T13:51:54Z")
don't forget about me?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/7 "2019-01-30T13:56:30Z")
You are.
By only having one `_type`, that is `_doc`, when we remove `_type`s completely you are already prepared.
> [@gormanst](#):
>
> don't forget about me?
What do you mean?
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### Author:  [@gormanst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gormanst)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/8 "2019-01-30T14:01:19Z")
> [@warkolm](#):
>
> The `_doc` type above is what is changing.
I am concerned that now I will have trouble with "\_doc". I think I still have a fundamental misunderstanding about what it means to have mapping types removed. Your initial response seems to indicate I will have problems because something is changing with "\_doc"?
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### Author:  [@gormanst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gormanst)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/9 "2019-01-30T14:26:31Z")
still with me?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/10 "2019-01-30T15:10:34Z")
Read [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21) and specifically the "Also be patient" part.
It's fine to answer on your own thread after 2 or 3 days (not including weekends) if you don't have an answer.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/11 "2019-01-30T15:28:15Z")
In that example you gave you have two "types";
1. the `type` referring to the mapping of a **specific** field. This is not changing
2. the `_type` referring to the mapping of a document variant
The second one is changing.
> [@gormanst](#):
>
> still with me?
What do you mean?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-type-or-type-or-both/166359/12 "2019-02-27T15:28:17Z")
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