Mongo ids displayed in the tree give no information

[ejizba]

Today the user sees a bunch of ids like this:

But those aren't helpful at all. I see a few ways to fix (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. Create a setting so that users can specify the property to display in the tree
2. When the user creates a new document, use the value they enter for the id as the "_id" property instead of "id". If I create a document with id specified as "exampleid", this is what I get:

{
  "_id": "5a9d7668dcb45709671aa200",
  "id": "exampleId"
}

We could be using "_id" - I know its possible since I can run this command successfully:

db.scores.insertOne{
    "_id": "exampleId"
})

[StephenWeatherford]

Show id if available.

[vyashole]

Ideally, this could be made configurable per collection.
For example, one might want to see name or username for a users collection or something like a slug for a posts collections instead of _id.

[StephenWeatherford]

@adwaitv Does it need to be configurable per collection (which makes for more complicated settings), or would a simple array of ordered properties work well enough, e.g.:

"cosmosdb.docdb.displayproperties": ["slug", "username", "name", "id", "_id"]

where the first property that exists on each document is the one that is displayed? Thanks.