Server method error : Can only call rawCollection on server collections

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What exactly is a “server collection”?

I’m trying to use a mongo aggregation function inside a server method and I always get the error of:

Error: Can only call rawCollection on server collections

Can I not use rawCollection if the collection exists on the client?

This is occurring inside a local package - could that break it?

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Hi,

Apparently the correct usage is currently Assets._collection.rawCollection().

Maybe the Meteor team could take some of that cool $20 million and spend a thousand or so to actually nail down a public API for using mongo aggregation…

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This also works:
Users.rawCollection().createIndex({"profile.phone": 1}, {unique: true}, (e)-> if e then console.log e)

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Just wrap it inside a if (Meteor.isServer) block