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  • Expand Embedded Objects and Arrays
  • Copy Documents to Clipboard
  • Encrypted Fields

The Documents tab provides three ways to access documents:

List View
The default document view. Documents are shown as individual members of a list. In this view you can easily expand embedded objects and arrays.
JSON View (New in Compass 1.20)
Documents are shown as properly-formatted JSON objects. In this view Compass uses extended JSON to display the data types of fields where appropriate.
Table View
Shows documents as rows of a table, with document fields shown in the table columns. With this view, you can more easily see which documents contain specific field values.

Use the View buttons to select which view you would like to use:


Documents list view
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Note

JSON View is available starting in Compass 1.20.

Documents in JSON view
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You can reorder the table columns by clicking and dragging the column headings. Reordering the columns is a strictly cosmetic change and does not change the underlying data itself.

Documents in Table view
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To toggle the expansion of embedded objects and array elements, hover over the target document and click the arrow in the top-left corner.

Expand embedded objects list
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To toggle the expansion of embedded objects and array elements, hover over the target document and click the top arrow on the left side of the document.

To expand individual objects and arrays, click the arrow to the left of the desired field.

Expand embedded objects JSON
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To view nested object fields and array elements, hover your cursor over a field with a value type of Object or Array and click the button with outward-pointing arrows which appears on the right side of the field.

Compass opens a new tab in the Table View corresponding to the nested element.

View nested elements in Table view
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The following example displays the delays object nested within the airlines collection documents. The new tab displays the two properties of the delays object: international and domestic.

Nested documents
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To return to the original table display, click on the first tab in the Table View which displays the name of your collection.

To copy a document to your clipboard, hover over the document and click the Copy icon:

Copy Document from List View
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To copy a document to your clipboard, hover over the document and click the Copy icon:

Copy Document from JSON View
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To copy a document to your clipboard, hover over the document and click the Copy icon:

Copy Document from Table View
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Compass obscures document fields encrypted with Field-Level Encryption (FLE). Compass displays the values of these fields as a series of asterisks.

Encrypted field in list view
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If your deployment is connected using In-Use Encryption and your collection is configured with Queryable Encryption, you can toggle the In-Use Encryption connection option.

  • When In-Use Encryption is enabled, you can modify and view the encrypted values and fields.

  • When In-Use Encryption is disabled, Compass displays the values of these fields as a series of asterisks.

Compass obscures document fields encrypted with Field-Level Encryption (FLE). Compass displays the values of these fields as a series of asterisks.

If your deployment is connected using In-Use Encryption and your collection is configured with Queryable Encryption, you can toggle the In-Use Encryption connection option.

  • When In-Use Encryption is enabled, you can modify and view the encrypted values and fields.

  • When In-Use Encryption is disabled, Compass displays the values of these fields as a series of asterisks.

Compass obscures document fields encrypted with Field-Level Encryption (FLE). Compass displays the values of these fields as a series of asterisks.

Encrypted field in table view
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If your deployment is connected using In-Use Encryption and your collection is configured with Queryable Encryption, you can toggle the In-Use Encryption connection option.

  • When In-Use Encryption is enabled, you can modify and view the encrypted values and fields.

  • When In-Use Encryption is disabled, Compass displays the values of these fields as a series of asterisks.

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