Troubleshooting

This section may help you find solutions to common pitfalls when using Firelize.

I Can’t See All My Documents

Firestore allows you to create subcollections under documents that technically don’t exist yet. For example, you might have a structure like:

shop (collection)
└── catalog (document — does NOT exist)
    └── products (collection)

In this case, the catalog document under shop doesn’t actually exist — it has no fields or content. It only “exists” because there is a products subcollection underneath it. The Firebase SDK doesn’t automatically infer or generate “placeholder” documents for non-existing ancestors and therefore Firelize can’t show the full structure.

To make the full structure visible, just create the missing ancestor document (shop/catalog, in this case). It doesn’t need any content.