> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Include/exclude models

By default, all models declared in your app are analyzed by the Forest agent in order to display them as collections in your admin panel.

You can exclude some of them from the analysis to never send their metadata to Forest. By doing this, these models will therefore never be available in your admin panel.

To do so, add the following code to **either** define which models are included **or** excluded.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="SQL">
    #### Include models

    ```javascript theme={null}
    ...

    app.use(require('forest-express-sequelize').init({
      envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
      authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
      objectMapping,
      connections,
      includedModels: ['customers']
    }));

    ...
    ```

    #### Exclude models

    ```javascript theme={null}
    ...

    app.use(require('forest-express-sequelize').init({
      envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
      authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
      objectMapping,
      connections,
      excludedModels: ['documents', 'transactions']
    }));

    ...
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Mongoose">
    #### Include models

    ```javascript theme={null}
    ...

    app.use(require('forest-express-mongoose').init({
      modelsDir: __dirname + '/models',
      envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
      authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
      sequelize: require('./models').sequelize,
      includedModels: ['customers']
    }));

    ...
    ```

    #### Exclude models

    ```javascript theme={null}
    ...

    app.use(require('forest-express-mongoose').init({
      modelsDir: __dirname + '/models',
      envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
      authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
      sequelize: require('./models').sequelize,
      excludedModels: ['documents', 'transactions']
    }));

    ...
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Rails">
    ```ruby theme={null}
    ForestLiana.env_secret = Rails.application.secrets.forest_env_secret
    ForestLiana.auth_secret = Rails.application.secrets.forest_auth_secret

    # ...

    # in the [] you may add the precise list of all models you want to see in Forest
    ForestLiana.included_models = ['Customer'];

    # or second possibility below :

    # in the [] you may add the precise list of all models you do not want to see in Forest
    ForestLiana.excluded_models = ['Document', 'Transaction'];
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Django">
    ```python theme={null}
    # ...
    FOREST = {
        'FOREST_ENV_SECRET': os.environ.get('FOREST_ENV_SECRET'),
        'FOREST_AUTH_SECRET': os.environ.get('FOREST_AUTH_SECRET'),
        # in the [] you may add the precise list of all models you want to see in Forest
        'INCLUDED_MODELS': ['Customer']
        # in the [] you may add the precise list of all models you do not want to see in Forest
        'EXCLUDED_MODELS': ['Customer', 'Transaction'],
    }
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>