Create, View, Update, and Delete Documents
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You can use the Atlas UI to manage documents inside your collections. Documents are individual records in a MongoDB collection and are the basic unit of data in MongoDB.
Viewing documents and collections in the Atlas UI can provide a high-level overview of your database schema. You can use the Atlas UI to ensure you are following MongoDB's core data modeling concepts, such as utilizing embedded documents and arrays.
Required Roles
To insert, edit, or delete documents, you must have been granted access through one of the following roles:
Insert Documents
To add one or more documents to a collection through the Atlas UI, you can specify the documents to insert from scratch or you can clone an existing document and modify its fields and values as needed.
Insert One Document
Modify the document.
To add a new field after an existing field, hover over the field and click on the plus sign that appears over the field's line number.
To delete a field, hover over the field and click on the x sign that appears to the left of the field's line number. You cannot delete the
_idfield.To edit a field name, value, or type, click on the field name, value, or type.
Insert Multiple Documents
Type or paste an array of documents to insert.
Example
The following array of documents inserts three documents into the collection:
[ { "name": "Alice", "age": 26, "email": "alice@abc.com" }, { "name": "Bob", "age": 43, "email": "bob@def.com" }, { "name": "Carol", "age": 19, "email": "carol@xyz.com" } ]
Clone One Document
Optional. Specify a filter.
To specify filter condition, type in a query filter document in the filter bar. For example, to specify equality condition, use a filter document of the form:
{ <field1>: <value1>, ... }
To use query operators to specify a filter condition, use a filter document of the form:
{ <field1>: { <queryoperator>: <value1> }, ... }
Clone the document.
To clone a document displayed in the query results, hover over the document and click on its clone document icon.
The document editor appears with the _id field with an
ObjectId value that reflects the time of its generation and
not the insertion time of the document. As such, the ObjectId
does not represent a strict insertion order.
Modify the document.
To add a new field after an existing field, hover over the field and click on the plus sign that appears over the field's line number.
To delete a field, hover over the field and click on the x sign that appears to the left of the field's line number. You cannot delete the
_idfield.To edit a field name, value, or type, click on the field name, value, or type.
View, Filter, and Sort Documents
To view documents for a collection:
In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.
The Clusters page displays.
Go to the Collections page.
Click the Browse Collections button for your cluster.
The Data Explorer displays.
To filter and sort documents for a collection:
Optional: Specify a query to find specific documents.
You can use the query bar to search for specific documents in your collection. You perform the following actions with the query bar:
Filter a query
Project fields to include or exclude specific fields in the query results
Sort the documents in the results
Apply collation to specify language-specific rules
Note
You can't skip documents and omit them from query results from the
Atlas query bar. To skip documents, use the $skip
pipeline stage in the aggregation pipeline builder.
Filter Query Results
To specify a filter condition, type a query filter into the Filter field. For example, to specify an equality condition, use a filter with the form:
{ <field1>: <value1>, ... }
To use query operators to specify a filter condition, use a filter with the following form:
{ <field1>: { <queryoperator>: <value1> }, ... }
Note
The Atlas UI does not support date queries
that use the IsoDate() function. Instead, use the
MongoDB Extended JSON (v2) $date data type
for date queries.
For example, the following query returns all documents where
the date added to a created_at field is equal to or more
recent than midnight on January 1, 2019, UTC time:
{ created_at: { $gte: { $date: "2019-01-01T00:00-00:00" } } }
For more information on specifying query filters, including compound conditions, see Query Documents.
Project Fields in Query Results
To specify the document fields to include or exclude in the results, click More Options in the query bar and specify the document fields in the Project field.
To include fields, specify the field name and set to 1 in
the project document. For example, to include the year and
name fields in the documents:
{ year: 1, name: 1 }
Atlas returns the fields specified in the
Project field and the _id field, which is
returned unless it is explicitly excluded.
To exclude fields, specify the field name and set to 0 in
the project document. For example, to exclude the year and
name fields in the documents:
{ year: 0, name: 0 }
Atlas returns all fields except the fields specified in Project.
To learn more about project documents, see
$project.
Sort Query Results
To sort the order of the documents in the results, click
More Options in the query bar and enter the sort
document in the Sort field.
To specify ascending order for a field, set the field to
1in the sort document.To specify descending order for a field, set the field to
-1in the sort documents.
For example, the following sort document sorts results
first by year in descending order, and within each year,
sorts by name in ascending order:
{ year: -1, name: 1 }
To learn more about sort documents, see
$sort.
Specify Collation
Important
Feature unavailable in Serverless Instances
Serverless instances don't support this feature at this time. To learn more, see Serverless Instance Limitations.
To specify language-specific rules for string comparison, such
as rules for lettercase and accent marks, click
More Options in the query bar and enter the collation
document in the Collation field. Use the
locale field in the collation document to specify the ICU
Locale code for
the desired language. For example, to use the pinyin
variant of the Chinese collation, use the following collation
document:
{ "locale" : "zh@collation=pinyin" }
To learn more about collation documents, see Collation.
Note
As you type, the Apply button is disabled and the field name in the User Interface turns red until a valid query is entered.
Number of Documents Displayed per Page
The Atlas UI limits the total byte size of documents shown per page. As a result, you may see varying numbers of documents per page, especially if your documents vary significantly in size.
Edit One Document
To edit a document from a collection through the Atlas UI:
Optional. Specify a filter.
To specify filter condition, type in a query filter document in the filter bar. For example, to specify equality condition, use a filter document of the form:
{ <field1>: <value1>, ... }
To use query operators to specify a filter condition, use a filter document of the form:
{ <field1>: { <queryoperator>: <value1> }, ... }
Edit the document.
To edit a document displayed in the query results, hover over the document to edit and click on the pencil icon.
The document appears in the document editor:
To add a new field, hover over the field and click on the plus sign that appears over the field's line number.
To delete a field, hover over the field and click on the x sign that appears to the left of the field's line number. You cannot delete the
_idfield.To edit a field name, value, or type, click on the field name, value, or type.
To revert a specific change, hover over the edited field and click the revert icon that appears to the left of the field's line number.
Delete One Document
To delete a document from a collection through the Atlas UI:
Optional. Specify a filter.
To specify filter condition, type in a query filter document in the filter bar. For example, to specify equality condition, use a filter document of the form:
{ <field1>: <value1>, ... }
To use query operators to specify a filter condition, use a filter document of the form:
{ <field1>: { <queryoperator>: <value1> }, ... }