how to get one value from another

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[valid tide]

or if I do it through a query, it simply doesn’t find it and returns null

export const getByShortId = query({
  args: {shortId: v.optional(v.string())},
  handler: async (ctx, args) => {
    const identity = await ctx.auth.getUserIdentity()
    
    const documents = await ctx.db.query("documents")
      .filter((q) => q.eq(q.field("shortId"), args.shortId))
      .collect()

    return documents[0]
  }
})

const document = useQuery(api.document.getById, {
    documentId: params.documentId
})

[weary crypt]

In the second snippet you're passing documentId as an arg instead of shortId

Are you not getting errors from that?

oh you're calling a different query entirely in that second snippet