Display only a single field from all the documents in a MongoDB collection

Projection means only selected field must be visible. Set the field to 1, if you want to make it visible.

Let us first create a collection with documents −

> db.demo384.insertOne({"StudentName":"Chris Brown","StudentCountryName":"US"}); {    "acknowledged" : true,    "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e5b67a022064be7ab44e7f2") } > db.demo384.insertOne({"StudentName":"David Miller","StudentCountryName":"AUS"}); {    "acknowledged" : true,    "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e5b67ab22064be7ab44e7f3") } > db.demo384.insertOne({"StudentName":"John Doe","StudentCountryName":"UK"}); {    "acknowledged" : true,    "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e5b67b422064be7ab44e7f4") }

Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −

> db.demo384.find();

This will produce the following output −

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e5b67a022064be7ab44e7f2"), "StudentName" : "Chris Brown", "StudentCountryName" : "US" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e5b67ab22064be7ab44e7f3"), "StudentName" : "David Miller", "StudentCountryName" : "AUS" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e5b67b422064be7ab44e7f4"), "StudentName" : "John Doe", "StudentCountryName" : "UK" }

Following is the query to display only a single field and ignore rest of them −

> db.demo384.find({},{_id:0,StudentName:0});

This will produce the following output −

{ "StudentCountryName" : "US" } { "StudentCountryName" : "AUS" } { "StudentCountryName" : "UK" }