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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions docs/concepts/Helpers/ExampleHelper.md
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Expand Up @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ module.exports = {
fn: async function (inputs, exits) {

// Run the query
var users = await User.find({
const users = await User.find({
active: true,
lastLogin: { '>': inputs.activeSince }
})
Expand All @@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ module.exports = {
To call this helper from app code using the default options (in an action, for example), we would use:

```javascript
var users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers();
const users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers();
```

To alter the criteria for the returned users, we could pass in some values:

```javascript
var users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers(50);
const users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers(50);
```

Or, to get the 10 most recent users who have logged in since St. Patrick's Day, 2017:
Expand All @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers.with({
Finally, to handle the `noUsersFound` exit explicitly rather than simply treating it like any other error, we can use [`.intercept()`](https://sailsjs.com/documentation/reference/waterline-orm/queries/intercept) or [`.tolerate()`](https://sailsjs.com/documentation/reference/waterline-orm/queries/tolerate):

```javascript
var users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers(10)
const users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers(10)
.tolerate('noUsersFound', ()=>{
// ... handle the case where no users were found. For example:
sails.log.verbose(
Expand All @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ var users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers(10)
```

```javascript
var users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers(10)
const users = await sails.helpers.getRecentUsers(10)
.intercept('noUsersFound', ()=>{
return new Error('Inconceivably, no active users were found for that timeframe.');
});
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