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Meteor app not inserting elements into collection


I am learning Meteor JS and followed a tutorial to build a menu builder shopping list. I am trying to add some features to it. I added one feature successfully, but now I am trying to create an organization feature where users can join an organization and see all shopping lists related to that organization. The first step is to allow for adding an organization by users.

The form appears, and I was able to insert in to the database from the console, but when I use autoform the objects are not being inserted into the database.

I recently upgraded from Meteor 1.3 to 1.4. I don't believe that is an issue since all of the other forms on the app are inserting properly still.

I have a feeling it has something to do with subscribe/publish, but I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

HTML- neworganization.html

        <template name='NewOrganization'>
    <div class='new-organization-container'>

        <i class='fa fa-close'></i>

          {{#autoForm collection='Organizations' id='insertOrganizationForm'  type='insert'}}
<div class='form-group'>
      {{> afQuickField name='organization'}}
      </div>
      <div class='form-group'>
      {{> afQuickField name='members'}}
      </div>



    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Add</button>
  {{/autoForm}}

    </div>


</template>

organizations.html

<template name='Organizations'>
<h3>Your Organizations</h3>
{{#if $.Session.get 'newOrganization'}}
        {{> NewOrganization }}
{{else}}
<button class='btn btn-organization btn-primary'>Add an Organization</button>
<button class='btn btn-join'>Join an Organization</button>
<button class='btn btn-deny'>Leave an Organization</button>
{{/if}}
<section class='organization-list'>
        {{#if Template.subscriptionsReady}}
        {{#each organizationList}}
            {{> OrganizationItem}}
        {{/each}}
    {{else}}
        <p>Loading...</p>
    {{/if}}

JS- organizations.js

Template.Organizations.onCreated(function() {
  this.autorun(() => {
    this.subscribe('organizations');
  });
});

Template.Organizations.helpers({
    organizations()  {
        return Organizations.find({});
    }
});


Template.Organizations.events({
      'click .btn-organization': () => {
        Session.set('newOrganization', true);
      }
});

Template.NewOrganization.helpers({
    organizationList: () => {

      var organizationItems = Organizations.find({});

        return organizationItems;
    }
});

newOrganization.js

    if (Meteor.isClient) {
    Meteor.subscribe('organizations');
} 
Template.NewOrganization.events ({
    'click .fa-close': function () {
        Session.set('newOrganization', false);
    }
});

collections/organizations.js

    import SimpleSchema from 'simpl-schema';
SimpleSchema.extendOptions(['autoform']);


Organizations = new Mongo.Collection('organizations');

Organizations.allow({
    insert: function(userId){
        return !!userId;
    },
    update: function(userId, doc){
        return !!userId;
    }
});


OrganizationSchema = new SimpleSchema ({
    organization: {
        label: "Organization Name",
        type: String
    },
    id: {
        label: "ID",
        type: String,
        autoform: {
            type: "hidden"
        }

    },
    members: {
        type: Array
    },
        "members.$": Object,
        "members.$.name": String,
        "members.$.role": String,
          inOrganization: {
            type: Boolean,
            defaultValue: true,

            autoform: {
                type: 'hidden'
            }
      },

    createdAt: {
        type: Date,
        label: "CreatedAt",
        autoform: {
            type: "hidden"
        },
        autoValue: function() {
            return new Date();
        }
    }
});

Meteor.methods({
    deleteOrganizations: function(id) {
        Organizations.remove(id);
    }
});

Organizations.attachSchema(OrganizationSchema);

Solution

  • The problem is in the way the Schema was designed. I had inserted an id into the schema. My reasoning was that I wanted to have a way to add and remove members from an organization. What I did not take into account was that Mongo autogenerates an id for database object and by designing my schema in this way, I was creating a conflict. I removed the id from my schema and removed the problem.

    Here is the new collections/organizations.js file:

    import SimpleSchema from 'simpl-schema';
    SimpleSchema.extendOptions(['autoform']);
    
    Organizations = new Mongo.Collection('organizations');
    
    Organizations.allow({
        insert: function(userId){
            return !!userId;
        },
        update: function(userId, doc){
            return !!userId;
        }
    });
    
    
    OrganizationSchema = new SimpleSchema ({
        organization: {
            label: "Organization Name",
            type: String
        },
        members: {
            type: Array
        },
            "members.$": Object,
            "members.$.name": String,
            "members.$.role": String,
    
              inOrganization: {
                type: Boolean,
                defaultValue: true,
    
                autoform: {
                    type: 'hidden'
                }
          },
    
        createdAt: {
            type: Date,
            label: "CreatedAt",
            autoform: {
                type: "hidden"
            },
            autoValue: function() {
                return new Date();
            }
        }
    });
    
    Meteor.methods({
        deleteOrganizations: function(id) {
            Organizations.remove(id);
        }
    });
    
    SimpleSchema.debug = true;
    
    Organizations.attachSchema(OrganizationSchema);