Configuring a single model within dbt_project.yml

[dbeatty10]

Contributions

• I have read the contribution docs, and understand what's expected of me.

Link to the page on docs.getdbt.com requiring updates

https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/model-configs#configuring-models and/or https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/source-configs#configuring-sources

What part(s) of the page would you like to see updated?

Problem

Many people don't know how to drill all the way down to a single model/source within dbt_project.yml.

Proposed solution

Sources has this explainer:

dbt-labs/dbt-core#7128 (comment) reminds me that we should have something similar on the models page.

In particular, the config within dbt_project.yml for models is not intuitive for everyone:

models:
  **your_project_name**:
    subdirectory_1_name:
      subdirectory_2_name:
        **model_name**:
          +config_name: config_value

Sources are ever-so-slightly different:

sources:
  **your_project_name**:
    subdirectory_1_name:
      subdirectory_2_name:
        **source_name**:
          **source_table_name**:
            +config_name: config_value

Additional information

There might be other resource types that this applies to as well.