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Am I right in thinking that it is not possible to edit/view a local document in a CouchDb database using Fauxton?

I can't see how to do it from the UI, and Googling returns no references to being able to do it.

Local documents aren't a major part of CouchDb, but this omission does seem an oversight.

ianmayo
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The answer here still applies because the Cloudant dashboard is basically the same as the Fauxton one, with a few additions.

However, I have made a slight edit to that answer because you can access these local documents in the UI by modifying the dashboard URL with the document ID.

It is not pretty, but it works!

Daniel Mermelstein
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  • Thanks for that Daniel Note: it appears the `_local/settings` trick works on Cloudant but not CouchDb. For `CouchDb` I get a `does not exist` warning: https://i.gyazo.com/167b3a07710149569683747de44238aa.mp4 – ianmayo Apr 06 '22 at 13:31
  • FWIW, see this https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/1000 – RamblinRose Apr 06 '22 at 18:56