# My own custom mapping, examples, and documentation?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-own-custom-mapping-examples-and-documentation/6883>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 5, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-own-custom-mapping-examples-and-documentation/6883 "2012-03-05T01:46:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Dennis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dennis)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-own-custom-mapping-examples-and-documentation/6883/1 "2012-03-05T01:46:06Z")

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I went through the website. I don't see any examples. I also don't see  
where the mapping is applied to an index, just in the JSON when and index  
is manually created per CURL?

Any tutorials on manual index mapping?

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Jain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eric_jain/32/834_2.png) [@Eric\_Jain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Jain)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-own-custom-mapping-examples-and-documentation/6883/2 "2012-03-05T01:59:48Z")

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On Mar 4, 5:46 pm, Dennis [gear...@gmail.com](mailto:gear...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Any tutorials on manual index mapping?

Check the links from the "Mapping API" section at  
[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/).

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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, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-own-custom-mapping-examples-and-documentation/6883/3 "2017-07-06T03:37:25Z")

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