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Query referenced tag title in GROQ array filter

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Last updated: Nov 29, 2025
Hello DevI only want to get "NextJS" of the title from the reference of the tag in the document of "gorq", how do you guys solve it?

export default defineType({
  name: 'contents',
  title: 'Contents',
  type: 'document',
  fields: [
    defineField({
      name: 'tags',
      title: 'Tags',
      type: 'array',
      of: [{type: 'reference', to: [{type: 'tags'}]}],
    }),
  ],
})

*[_type == "contents" && tags[]-> title == "NextJS" ] {
...
}
AI Update

Looking at your query, you're on the right track! The issue is that when you filter with tags[]-> title == "NextJS", you're checking if any tag matches, but then you need to actually project/return the title in your results.

Here are a few approaches depending on what you want to achieve:

If you want just the matching tag titles:

*[_type == "contents" && "NextJS" in tags[]->title] {
  "matchingTags": tags[]->title
}

If you want only the "NextJS" title specifically:

*[_type == "contents" && "NextJS" in tags[]->title] {
  "nextjsTag": tags[]->{title}[title == "NextJS"][0].title
}

If you want to filter the tags array to only include matching references:

*[_type == "contents" && "NextJS" in tags[]->title] {
  _id,
  "filteredTags": tags[]->{ title }[title == "NextJS"]
}

The key things to understand here:

  1. tags[]->title dereferences all tag references and gets their titles as an array
  2. tags[]->{title} dereferences and projects each tag, giving you more control over filtering
  3. The filter condition checks if the value exists, but you still need to project what you want in the result using projections

The most common pattern for your use case would be:

*[_type == "contents" && "NextJS" in tags[]->title] {
  ...,
  "tagTitles": tags[]->title
}

This gives you all content documents that have a "NextJS" tag, and returns an array of all tag titles (including "NextJS") for each document. The ... spreads all other fields from the content document, while "tagTitles" creates a new field with the dereferenced tag titles.

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