This._id returning undefined

[deborah]

It does help. Thank you!

I have some similar questions right now on Stack Overflow and one also on this forum. I’ll return here and update if a better solution emerges.

Links to similar issue where this.collectionFieldName in template.js returns null or undefined…

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38348199/meteor-and-mongo-db-access-value-of-a-field-in-the-current-page?rq=1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38420042/javascript-get-value-of-mongo-field-already-rendered-meteor

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