List functions have access to multiple documents. http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/transforming.html http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Formatting_with_Show_and_List
hope it helps, Marcello 2011/5/17 Fabio Batalha Cunha dos Santos <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > As I thought! > > We have this accomplished in application level. > > The problem is that we use couchdb as a webservices label for some apps and > we intend to supply the data in a more accurated level. > > We will try to make changes in the data model, including some journal data > in the article data. > > Thanks. > *Fabio Batalha C. Santos* > Colegiado SciELO > www.scielo.org > FAPESP - CNPq - BIREME - FapUNIFESP > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Stefan Kögl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Am 2011-05-16 22:43, schrieb Fabio Batalha Cunha dos Santos: >> > In a view function, I would to query the database to get a specific >> > info that are stored in another document in the same database. >> >> No, that's not possible. A view function's result should only depend on >> the document for which it is called, not on any other states (such as >> the database). Otherwise this would yield different results without >> changes to the document - these changes could then not be detected >> because the view function is only evaluated when a document is >> changed/replicated. >> >> I am not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish, but maybe you can >> move the logic you want to implement to the application instead? >> >> >> -- Stefan >> >
