Other SSGs > Accessing records
Here are the different methods you can use inside your dato.config.js file to retrieve records stored in your administrative area.
Find a record by ID
If you already know the ID of the record you need to access, just use the dato.find method:
// dato.config.jsmodule.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {// returns the record with ID 3411dato.find(3411)}
Find all the records of a specific model
Suppose you have a Blog post model in your administrative area, and you want retrieve the complete collection of its records. First thing first, you need to know its Model ID:
In this case, the ID is blog_post, so you can retrieve its records pluralizing and camel-casing the Model ID, and using the result as a method on the dato object:
// dato.config.jsmodule.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {// iterate over the Array of records of the `blog_post` modeldato.blogPosts.forEach(record => {// ...});};
If you need to access the record associated to a single-instance model, you don't need to pluralize the Model ID:
// dato.config.jsmodule.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {// returns the record for the `about_page` single-instance model// (or null, if it hasn't been created yet)dato.aboutPage;};