Insert if no document, else update autoform

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1

I have a shipping address database belonging to each user, they should be able to insert if no doc or update if there’s a doc. How can I go about this using autoform and simple schema?

2

Managed to do it in a rather hacky way

js

Template.address.onCreated(function onCreated() {
  Tracker.autorun(() => {
    Meteor.subscribe('address');
  });
});

Template.address.helpers({
  address() {
    return Address.findOne({
      owner: Meteor.userId(),
    });
  },
  isAddress() {
    if (Address.find().count() === 0) {
      Session.set('isAddress', false);
    } else {
      Session.set('isAddress', true);
    }
    return Session.get('isAddress');
  },
});

html

<template name="address">
	{{#if isAddress}}
		<h2>Edit your shipping address</h2>
		{{> quickForm collection="Address" doc=address id="updateAddressForm" type="update"}}
	{{else}}
		<h2>Add a shipping address</h2>
		{{> quickForm collection="Address" id="insertAddressForm" type="insert"}}
	{{/if}}
</template>
3

“insert if exists, otherwise update” is called an “upsert”. See the docs on Meteor’s Collection.upsert. Here’s a thread talking about autoform + upsert, and here’s the autoform docs on the topic

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