Meteor: Get user information from user profile page

Question

I have a Meteor project with a profile page system setup for each user which I created with the help of this question.

How can I retrieve information from the user's profile for that page in the JS code for my Template.helpers?

Eg. I have the following helper for my profile page

Template.profile.helpers({
  winLoseRatio: function() {
    var wins = 0;
    var losses = 0;

    var ratio = wins/losses;
    ratio = Math.round((ratio * 1000) + 0.000001) / 1000;

    return ratio;
  },
  totalGuesses: function() {
    var wins = 0;
    var losses = 0;

    var total = wins + losses;

    return total;
  }
});

For all the values of 0, I want to get the user's (who's profile I'm on) .profile.stats.wins and .profile.stat.losses field values.

I tried Meteor.userId().profile.stats.wins but that returned the wins of the current logged in your and not the wins of the user who owns the profile page.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 04 '16 at 08:14

3

All users are available in Meteor.users collection, so:

// Find user with id of currently viewed profile.
var user = Meteor.users.findOne(userId);
if (user) {
    console.log(user.profile.stats.wins);
} else {
    console.log('No user with id', user);
}

answered Feb 04 '16 at 08:14

Radosław Miernik

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How do I get the userId for that specific profile page? – Barry Michael Doyle Feb 04 '16 at 08:15
There's no `username` word in your post, but ok. Instead of `Meteor.users.findOne(userId)` find your user by username: `Meteor.users.findOne({ username: username })`. – Radosław Miernik Feb 04 '16 at 08:21
Ok, sorry - I've just woke up. Did that second `findOne` worked? – Radosław Miernik Feb 04 '16 at 08:23
I get a username is not defined error in my client console. – Barry Michael Doyle Feb 04 '16 at 08:27
Ok got it working, I had to pass username as a parameter to the function. Thanks for the help :) – Barry Michael Doyle Feb 04 '16 at 08:33
I'm glad I could help. – Radosław Miernik Feb 04 '16 at 08:34

Meteor: Get user information from user profile page

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