# References in the Content Validator - Quick Guide

**URL:** <https://community.omni.co/t/references-in-the-content-validator-quick-guide/421>\
**Category:** Modeling\
**Tags:** content-validator\
**Created:** [November 11, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.omni.co/t/references-in-the-content-validator-quick-guide/421 "2025-11-11T23:09:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![James](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@James](https://community.omni.co/u/James)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.omni.co/t/references-in-the-content-validator-quick-guide/421/1 "2025-11-11T23:09:09Z")

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When searching with the content validator or replacing views, fields, and topics, it’s important to reference each object using the proper view names, fully-scoped fields, and topic identifiers.

Note: Content Validator references are case-sensitive.

 ![Screenshot 2025-11-11 at 14.56.32](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/uploads/omni/original/1X/41b2595385427585c02d6cf57c107058208154f6.png)

## View

To search or replace views, type the view reference found in a comment at the top of the view file  
`# Reference this view as users`

 ![Screenshot 2025-11-11 at 15.02.42](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/uploads/omni/original/1X/f150f0808aa47344706fab763323bee561e81388.png)

## Field

To search or replace fields, type the fully-scoped field name  
`users.email`

## Topic

To search or replace topics, type the topic file name without the .topic extension  
`order_items`

 ![Screenshot 2025-11-11 at 15.03.23](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/uploads/omni/original/1X/ceea0acca0875f7d4ffa2457c9722963214cb1b6.png)

For more on references in the model, see [References in the Model - Quick Guide](https://community.omni.co/t/references-in-the-model-quick-guide/418)