# Type date

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-date/43907>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 9, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-date/43907 "2016-03-09T14:42:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sylv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@sylv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sylv)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-date/43907/1 "2016-03-09T14:42:33Z")

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Hello

How is it possible to set a date field empty ?

i want to create an end date field but all fields are not yet all ended so i must keep these fields empty

elastic does not like empty field.

thanks

Sylv

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-date/43907/2 "2016-03-09T18:53:15Z")

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> elastic does not like empty field.

I'm not sure what you mean here. It's entirely possible to have a field that exists in some documents but not others in the same type/index. Could you elaborate a bit more on what you're trying to achieve?

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**Author:** ![sylv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@sylv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sylv)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-date/43907/3 "2016-03-11T10:52:48Z")

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hello

i stop , delete, restart and recreate all

and the result siuts to me so no more problem for now 😉

thanks

Sylv

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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, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-date/43907/4 "2017-07-06T13:59:31Z")

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