Here are the different methods you can use inside your dato.config.js
file to retrieve records stored in your administrative area.
Find a record by ID
If you already know the ID of the record you need to access, just use the dato.find
method:
// dato.config.js
module.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {
// returns the record with ID 3411
dato.find(3411)
}
Find all the records of a specific model
Suppose you have a Blog post model in your administrative area, and you want retrieve the complete collection of its records. First thing first, you need to know its Model ID:
In this case, the ID is blog_post
, so you can retrieve its records pluralizing and camel-casing the Model ID, and using the result as a method on the dato
object:
// dato.config.js
module.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {
// iterate over the Array of records of the `blog_post` model
dato.blogPosts.forEach(record => {
// ...
});
};
If you need to access the record associated to a single-instance model, you don't need to pluralize the Model ID:
// dato.config.js
module.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {
// returns the record for the `about_page` single-instance model
// (or null, if it hasn't been created yet)
dato.aboutPage;
};