Meteor: insert document upon newly created user - meteor

Question

This is probably more simple than I'm making it sound.
I'm allowing my users to create their myprofile when the signin. This is a document that is stored in MyProfile = new Meteor.Collection('myprofile');. The principle is exactly the same as LinkedIn...you login, and you fill out a profile form and any edits you make simply updates that one document.
Within the document there will be fields such as 'summary' 'newsInterest' and others, also 'owner' which is the users Id.
1) How can I insert a document into the MyProfile collection with the 'owner' field being the userId of the newly created user on StartUp?
This is so that the data of this document, the values of these fields will be passed onto the myprofile page. Initially the values returned will be blank but as the user types, upon keyup the myprofile document will be updated.
Users are created as follows on the client. This is fine for now.
2) In addition, please provide any links if people have created users on the server. I called a method to insert the following as an object into Meteor.users.insert(object);but this does not work.
Template.join.events({
'submit #join-form': function(e,t){
e.preventDefault();
Accounts.createUser({
username: t.find('#join-username').value,
password: t.find('#join-password').value,
email: t.find('#join-email').value,
profile:{
fullname: t.find('#join-fullname').value,
summary: [],
newsInterest: [],
otherstuff: []
}
});
Router.go('myprofile');
}
});

Answer 1

1) In order to solve issue one you have two options.
Instead of having a separate collection for profiles like you would in a normalized MySQL database for example. Add the users profile data within the profile object already attached to objects in the user collection. You can then pass in the values you want in the options parameter of the Accounts.createUser function
Template.join.events({
"submit #join-form": function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
var firstName = $('input#firstName').val(),
lastName = $('input#lastName').val(),
username = firstName + '.' + lastName,
email = $('input#email').val(),
password = $('input#password').val(),
profile = {
name: firstName + ' ' + lastName
};
Accounts.createUser({
email: email,
username: username,
password: password,
profile: profile
}, function(error) {
if (error) {
alert(error);
} else {
Router.go('myprofile');
}
});
}
});
This is an example using jQuery to get the values but your t.find should work equally fine.
If you really do want to use a separate collection then I recommend using the following code inside the onCreateUser function (server side) instead:
Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {
user._id = Meteor.users._makeNewID();
profile = options.profile;
profile.userId = user._id;
MyProfile.insert(profile);
return user;
});
When you want to update or add additional data into the profile field for a user you can use the following:
var newProfile = {
summary: 'This summary',
newsInterest: 'This newsInterest',
otherstuff: 'Stuff'
};
Meteor.users.update(Meteor.userId, {$set: {profile: newProfile}});
Or if you went for the separate collection option the following:
var newProfile = MyProfile.findOne(Meteor.userId);
newProfile.summary = 'This summary';
newProfile.newsInterest = 'This newsInterest';
newProfile.otherstuff = 'Stuff';
MyProfile.update(Meteor.userId, newProfile);
Haven't tested this so let my know if I have any syntax / typo errors and I'll update.

Answer 2

Q2: you have to send email, password and profile object to server and use the same Accounts.createUser. Everything works fine.

Answer 3

Question 1 is easily resolved using the Accounts.onCreateUser callback on the server - it provides the user object to the callback, so you can just take the userId from this and insert a new "myProfile" with that owner.
As Will Parker points out below, the user document won't actually have an _id at this point though, so you need to create one and add it to the user object that the callback returns. You can do this with:
user._id = Meteor.users._makeNewID();