diff --git a/docs/reference/mapping/dynamic/field-mapping.asciidoc b/docs/reference/mapping/dynamic/field-mapping.asciidoc index 7bed12b5b78..2b0afa1562d 100644 --- a/docs/reference/mapping/dynamic/field-mapping.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/mapping/dynamic/field-mapping.asciidoc @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ By default, when a previously unseen field is found in a document, Elasticsearch will add the new field to the type mapping. This behaviour can be disabled, both at the document and at the <> level, by -setting the <> parameter to `false` or to `strict`. +setting the <> parameter to `false` (to ignore new fields) or to `strict` (to throw +an exception if an unknown field is encountered). Assuming `dynamic` field mapping is enabled, some simple rules are used to determine which datatype the field should have: