Display the user's email via Meteor.userId()

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Hi,

I’m pretty new to Meteor development and I ran into a following problem.
I have my code wrapped within Meteor.methods. The owner: Meteor.userId() is currently displaying the id of the user who created the element. Is there a way to display user’s email instead of the unreadable ID generated by the server? And of course, what would be the best practice for doing it?

Here is my code:

Resolutions.insert({
    title: title,
    event_date: event_date,
    createdAt: new Date (), // grab the time object from the server
    owner: Meteor.userId()
  });

Thanks a lot!
Blaz

2

What you need to do is fetch the actual User from the database using the id and then use his email address from that collection.

The full command is

Meteor.users.findOne({_id: “4cgQpLGnugwcMgby7”}).emails[0].address

E.g.

var userId = "Meteor.userId();
var user = Meteor.users.findOne({_id: userId});
return user.emails[0].address;

"test@test.com"

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You can use the package publish-composite to publish multiple objects of one collection with children (1-1 mapping) of another collection.

4

Thanks, Stan. You solved my problem.