[DOCS-10435] Connect to Atlas Manual guide should clarify the First Database dilemma Created: 26/Jun/17  Updated: 30/Oct/23

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual, Server
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Bug Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Andrew Davidson Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Do Votes: 0
Labels: collector-298ba4e7, docs-triage
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified
Environment:

Location: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/atlas-free-tier-setup/#create-free-tier-manual
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080


Participants:
Days since reply: 1 year, 14 weeks, 2 days ago
Epic Link: DOCSP-1769
Story Points: 0.25

 Description   

It's ambiguous what the following means: "and <DATABASE> with the name of the database to which you wish to connect"

Ultimately this whole idea of the DB name in MongoDB is a little counter-intuitive for a new user. I wonder if we can come up with a good catch-all for this getting started page

ToDo:

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/atlas-free-tier-setup/#create-free-tier-manual

Should let the user know that they can substitute any name for <DATABASE>, and MongoDb creates it for them automatically if it does not exist. This resolves the new-user confusion on how to connect to a database that does not yet exist.



 Comments   
Comment by Education Bot [ 31/Oct/22 ]

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Comment by Shannon Bradshaw (Inactive) [ 27/Jun/17 ]

andrew.davidson, I agree. Do you think that until we can hide the database/collection artifacts from users in our applications and tools that, in this tutorial, it's necessary to explain what a database is and why we need to specify it here?

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