I’m using a session variable as a parameter to filer my publish list. When I pass the object id as a string the code works and displays the correct objects but using owner: Session.get('id'); does not give any result. Where am I doing it wrong.
Meteor.publish('locations', function() { return Locations.find({ $or: [ { owner: Session.get('id'); } ] }); });
Session is clientside, you need to do something like
Meteor.Subscribe('locations', Session.get('id'));
and on your server
Meteor.publish('locations', function (id) {
...
});
@mordrax Hey Mordrax, Thanks for the reply. But using this also doesn’t seem to work.
Meteor.publish('locations', function(id) {
return Locations.find({
$or: [
{ owner: id }
]
});
});
and Meteor.Subscribe('locations', Session.get('id'));
Do I have to pass the find function in my helper as well? I’m fairly new into meteor so please excuse me if my queries seem way too silly to you 
Template.activitySubmit.helpers({
locations: function() {
return Locations.find();
}
});
PS: I have a list with a Apply button for each item where I capture the Object id in the Session variable onclick.
Your code looks right.
Console.log out what the id is on the server, remove the $or to sanity test your query (might be returning no results).
Get mongol to see what is being published to the client.
Actually… find() returns a cursor (unexecuted query), you need to fetch() to get the results (on the client side). Assuming you’re {{> each locations}} in your template. If this fails, everything i’ve said above still applies 
@mordrax I checked it using Mongol and the results were weird
I console.logged the id via the server and it showed the id. So I guess that the session var is alright.
PS : When I use
Meteor.subscribe('locations', Session.get('id'));
even a hardcoded string id as a parameter for owner does not work?
To give you a general overview of how my application works? There is a list of applications each generated from a Mongodb collection. Each of the item has a book/apply option which takes the user to a form handling page. Now each of the items have different locations available , thus I want to check the ownership of the locations throught a session var which has the ID from the parent object on the previous page. If there is a match, the location is displayed as a option in a drop down list. Hope this gives a general idea of what I’m trying to achieve.
what do you $or your owner id with?