Top Level Fields on User Collection [Solved]

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Hi All,

Im fairly new to Meteor and I am struggling to add top level fields to the users collection. I have followed the meteor guide, however, when I call the method the collection is updated. I know the method is working as when I modify it to be profile.field instead, the field is added to the collection so I am not 100% sure what the problem is.

I was wondering does anyone have a working example of adding top level fields to the user collection?

Thanks.

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There may be some other ways to do it but I just initialize any extra fields when the user is first created in Accounts.onCreateUser and just do Meteor.users.update as needed thereafter.

3

Meteor.users has special built in security, fields won’t be published unless you specifically add them to the fields option in the publish function like this:

Meteor.publish('users', function(){
	if(this.userId){
		return Meteor.users.find({},{fields:{myfield:1}});
	}
});

(And make sure never to publish the “services” field, as it contains the password hash!)

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Thanks for the quick response! I have tried both suggestions but I still seem to have no luck.

Have uploaded a repository to GIT: https://github.com/GreatFallz/meteor_test

Which demonstrates the method working on profile.primaryAddress but not primaryAddress.

Any other tips?

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where u subscribe your user collection ?

do u use auto publish ?

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Yes, for the purpose of that repo I have add both autopublish and insecure

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it seems like you haven’t subscribe your user publication

so it will not publish that field, but you can try

Meteor.publish('', function () {
  return Users.find({}, { fields: { services: false } })
})

and u should always hide service field

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I though with autopublish that wouldnt matter?

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this will override the autopublish

10

Thanks! that did the trick. I didn’t realise that even with autopublish you still need to specifically publish the fields.