Querying for a document based on its `_ref` number in Sanity.io.

is it possible to query for a document based on its

_ref

number?

The

_ref

value is equivalent to the document’s non-draft

_id

and gets ascribed to a reference, so in all cases I can think of, the answer would be yes. There’s an idiomatic approach to filtering in a subquery that uses that

_ref

value:

Here, the query for

posts

wants all posts where the author that’s referenced (from within the post document) equals the author

_id

from the top-level scope.

What you can’t really do is expect to use

_ref

at the top-level scope. E.g.,

However, that’s because you’d use

_id

instead of

_ref

.

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