Once a view has been published to be a production view, you can examine and manipulate the results of the view from within the web console view interface. This makes it easy to study the output of a view without using a suitable client library to obtain the information.

To examine the output of a view, click the magnifying glass next to the view name within the view list. This will present you with a view similar to that shown in the figure below.

Figure 6.26. Web Console — View Detail

The top portion of the interface provides navigation between the available design documents and views.

The Sample Document section allows you to view a random document from the database so that you can compare the document content with the generated view output. Clicking the Preview a Random Document will randomly select a document from the database. If you know the ID of a document that you want to examine, enter the document ID in the box, and click the Lookup Id button to load the specified document.

To examine the function that generate the view information, use the View Code section of the display. This will show the configured map and reduce functions.

The lower portion of the window will show you the list of documents generated by the view. You can use the Show Results to execute the view.

The Filter Results interface allows you to query and filter the view results by selecting the sort order, key range, or document range, and view result limits and offsets.

To specify the filter results, click on the pop-up triangle next to Filter Results. You can delete existing filters, and add new filters using the embedded selection windows. Click Show Results when you have finished selecting filter values. The filter values you specify are identical to those available when querying from a standard client library. For more information, see Section 9.8, “Querying Views”.