Managing Saved Queries and Aggregations

Saving an Aggregation Pipeline

You can save a pipeline so that you can find it later. If you load a saved pipeline, you can change it without changing the original saved copy. You can also create a view from your pipeline results.

To save your pipeline:

1

Click the save dropdown button

Click the Save dropdown button at the top of the pipeline builder. Click on Save pipeline as...

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Enter a name for your pipeline

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Click Save

Saving a Favorite Query

You can favorite a query so that you can find it later. If you load a favorite query, you can change it without changing the original saved copy.

To add a query to your favorites:

1

Open query history

Click the History button at the top of the pipeline builder.

2

Select favorites

Click the Star button.

3

Name your query

Enter a name for your query.

Viewing Saved Queries

Starting in MongoDB Compass 1.31, you can view your saved queries and aggregation pipelines on the My Queries view once connected to your cluster.

Using the My Queries View

When you click a saved or favorite query tile, Compass opens the Documents tab with the filter loaded.

When you click a saved or favorite pipeline tile, Compass opens the Aggregations tab with the pipeline loaded.

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Using the Favorites Tab

You can also view favorite queries from the Favorites tab from in the Documents view. To open the Favorites tab:

1

Open query history

Click the History button at the top of the Documents tab.

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Select favorites

Click the Favorites button in the past queries pane.

Viewing Query History

For details on how to view query history see viewing recent query history.