# Open source Elasticsearch does not use template in index creation
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-source-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/245673
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-source-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/245673 "2020-08-19T20:25:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@hweber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hweber)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-source-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/245673/1 "2020-08-19T20:25:53Z")
I am using an open source build of Elasticsearch, version 7.8.0.
I executed
```auto
curl -ivvk -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -u username:password -X PUT "https://localhost:9200/_template/test_template" -d '
{
"index_patterns": ["test-*"],
"template": {
"settings": {
"number_of_shards": 1,
"index.refresh_interval": "5s"
},
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"status": {
"type": "keyword"
},
"message": {
"type": "text"
}
}
}
}
}'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{"acknowledged":true}
curl -ivvk -H "Accept: application/json" -u username:password -X GET "https://localhost:9200/_cat/templates"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[{"name":"test_template","index_patterns":"[test-*]","order":"0","version":null,"composed_of":""}]
```
I then created the index, test-1, with a deliberate attempt to violate the intended mapping of **status** to keyword, by assigning an integer value to it:
```auto
curl -ivvk -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -u username:password -X POST "https://localhost:9200/test-1/_create/1" -d '
{
"status": 7,
"message": "This is a test."
}'
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
{"_index":"test-1","_type":"_doc","_id":"1","_version":1,"result":"created","_shards":{"total":2,"successful":1,"failed":0},"_seq_no":0,"_primary_term":1}
```
When I inspected the mapping that was applied to test-1, I saw:
```auto
curl -ivvk -u username:password -H "Accept: application/json" "https://localhost:9200/test-1/_mapping?pretty"
HTTP/1.1 200
{
"test-1" : {
"mappings" : {
"properties" : {
"message" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
},
"status" : {
"type" : "long"
}
}
}
}
}
```
I realized the template was ignored since status had type, long, instead of keyword. Can someone tell me what I should be doing?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-source-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/245673/2 "2020-08-19T20:47:15Z")
What is the output of \_cat/templates? Do you have any other templates that match the same pattern?
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### Author:  [@hweber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hweber)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-source-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/245673/3 "2020-08-19T21:00:11Z")
> [@hweber](#):
>
> `[{"name":"test_template","index_patterns":"[test-*]","order":"0","version":null,"composed_of":""}]`
The output is exactly what I originally wrote, `[{"name":"test_template","index_patterns":"[test-*]","order":"0","version":null,"composed_of":""}]`. I used a pristine Elasticsearch that had no templates.
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### Author:  [@hweber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hweber)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-source-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/245673/4 "2020-08-20T13:42:32Z")
It appears that the “template” name/value in my test\_template caused the problem. Removing it (moving its inner data to its level) allowed it to work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-source-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/245673/5 "2020-09-17T13:42:51Z")
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