How can I route to a users profile page? - meteor

Question

I show a list of items and for each item its belongs to a user. I list the item's name, description and the user who created it (by there name). I want to also have a link that goes to the user who created the item. Note: That I also link to an item's page.
Here is what I've done so far:
packages
aldeed:collection2
aldeed:simple-schema
iron:router
aldeed:autoform
useraccounts:iron-routing
accounts-password
accounts-base
useraccounts:core
zimme:active-route
todda00:friendly-slugs
reywood:publish-composite
client/items/listed_item.html
<template name="listedItem">
<a href="{{pathFor 'itemPage'}}">
{{name}}
</a>
<a href="{{pathFor 'profile'}}">
{{usernameFromId user}}
</a>
</template>
client/items/items.html
<template name="items">
<div class="items">
{{#each items}}
{{> listedItem}}
{{/each}}
</div>
</template>
client/subscriptions.js
Meteor.subscribe('items');
Meteor.subscribe('allUsernames');
Meteor.subscribe('users');
client/helpers.js
Template.items.helpers({
items: function() {
return Items.find();
},
});
Template.registerHelper("usernameFromId", function (userId) {
var user = Meteor.users.findOne({_id: this.userId});
return user.profile.name;
});
server/publications.js
Meteor.publish("items", function () {
return Items.find();
});
Meteor.publish("users", function () {
return Meteor.users.find({}, {
fields: { profile: 1 }
});
});
Meteor.publish("allUsernames", function () {
return Meteor.users.find({}, {
fields: { 'profile.name': 1, 'services.github.username': 1 }
});
});
lib/routes.js
Router.route('/items', function () {
this.render('items');
});
Router.route('/users/:_id', {
template: 'profile',
name: 'profile',
data: function() {
return Meteor.users.findOne({_id: this.params._id});
}
});
What this does though is show the items URL for the users URL, so it links to a user who doesn't exist. i.e. items/1234 = users/1234 when theres only users/1 in the system. How can I get it to link to the correct user ID?

Answer 1

use a link with the constructed URL
<template name="listedItem">
<a href="{{pathFor 'itemPage'}}">
{{name}}
</a>
<a href="http://yourdomain.com/users/{{user}}">
{{usernameFromId user}}
</a>
</template>

Answer 2

In this part:
Router.route('/users/:_id', {
template: 'profile',
name: 'profile',
data: function() {
return Meteor.users.findOne({_id: this.params._id});
}
});
you have referenced the route and created a route to a template with the name "profile" but I can't see any template with that name. Is it possible you just forgot to include it here? or that you really don't have that template?
Just making sure.

Answer 3

Try this:
Router.route('/users/:_id', {
template: 'profile',
name: 'profile'
}
In helper you can retrive that record id by this:
Router.current().params._id

Answer 4

I usually use this way:
In the template:
<div class="css-light-border">
{{title}}
</div><!-- / class light-border -->
In the router.js file:
Router.route('/document/:_id', function(){
Session.set('docid', this.params._id);
this.render('navbar', {to: "header"});
this.render('docItem', {to: "main"});
});
Basically here docid is the _id of the document which I want to display. Here is an example of how you pull from your database:
somehelper:function(){
var currentId = Session.get('docid');
var product = Products.findOne({_id:currentId});
return product;
I think it is an easy way because it uses Sessions.