Ability to add alias to database name
We have a lot of different databases on a cluster.
For security reason and as part of our naming convention databases are a combination of prefix and ID string.
We would like to be able to add an alias to those databases so that the right database can be quickly identified.
Tomasz
shared this idea
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Jason Jhuboo
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Fantastic news that this has been started - my use case is simple (and probably isn't the same as everyone else's requirement). I understand that the team at 3T will want to make this work for everyone, but I thought it best to provide our requirements anyway.
- When making queries, we are happy to use the original database name (we don't particularly care about the query windows changing).
- When looking for a database, we'd like to be able to see the alias for the database. It would be wonderful if this was somehow configurable, but as long as we could see it somewhere in the tree at a glance, it would make the UI a lot more usable for us. It would be nice to be able to sort on the Alias rather than the database name in the UI too.
- Applying an alias to a database could be done in many ways. If it is some configuration within Studio 3T, it would be useful to be able to import/export this mapping so a development team can have the same view. Better still - it would be nice to be able to specify a particular database/collection to query for mapping values. This could then be extended programatically outside of Studio 3T, and an entire team would always have a consistent UX. Another way would be to do what Postman does and have shared configuration stored online and served to a team - but this seems like overkill when we've all got Mongo databases anyway.
I hope this input is useful when it comes to designing this feature.
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Jason Jhuboo
commented
We have exactly the same problem - one MongoDB connection and we are projecting that we will have over 500 databases, and we name databases with Guid's to segregate data owned by different people. This feature would be a god-send, as it is slowly becoming unmanageable.
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Michał Kościelniak
commented
Yes please. I can't believe it's not there. We are experiencing similiar issue - our db names follows naming convention so that its name is just a GUID. If we could add alias to the collection it would be great. It could be very simple, for instance display aliast in parenthesis, so the name would be:
CollectionName(Alias). The alias just need to be visual feature helpiing to navigate through the IDE.