hey yeah, that should work fine, I just set it to 'private' when I emit. Damn, I should have thought of that, down in the code too long is making me tunnel visioned :) thanks, Bryan Rasmussen On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Zera Holladay wrote: > Try deleting the username field in the view and then emitting the doc? >  I don't know why it would work, but I don't know why it wouldn't > either.  Just an idea. > > -zh > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Robert Newson wrote: >> why not use a show or list function that removes that field? >> >> B. >> >> On 12 June 2012 01:37, Jens Alfke wrote: >>> >>> On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:29 PM, bryan rasmussen wrote: >>> >>>> Does couchdb have some sort of higher level way of doing this that >>>> will have better performance than just looping through the object and >>>> copying over every property unless it is the username one? >>> >>> Is the performance of that a problem? Remember, the map function is only run when a document is updated. It's generating an index, not performing the query. >>> >>> —Jens