Problems adding data using onCreateUser() in Meteor - mongodb

Question

I am trying to hook into the onCreateUser function with the accounts-password package to add information into another collection when an account is created. I have added this piece of code into the server.js
//server.js
var ShopDetails = {
name = "",
postCode = "",
type = "";
openTime = "",
closeTime = "",
phoneNum = 0,
dashboardDetails = false //until shop populates these fields
createdBy = user._id //_id taken from function below
}
Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options,user){
var userId = user._id;
ShopList.insert(shopDetails);
return user;
});
The two collections I have in the app are -
ShopList = new Mongo.Collection("shopList") //held in a collections folder
user collection that comes bundled with accounts-password
Once a new user has created an account, I wanted to insert an object with all the required fields (shopDetails) into the ShopList collection (For the purpose of creating a personal dashboard for each shop at a later point) . However after creating a few test accounts, I cannot see them in the ShopList collection in RoboMongo, I know the user accounts are being inserted as I can see them in the user collection. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Thanks

Answer 1

What do you get if you print
console.log(shopDetails) inside the hook?
Also try to use callbacks on the insert as a second parameter, so we can help you like this
ShopList.insert(ShopDetails,function(error,result){
if(error){
console.log(error); //should print the error and this help us more to help you =D
}else{
console.log(result);
}
});
also why don you better do something like
insertShopDetails = function(userId){
var ShopDetails = {
name = "",
postCode = "",
type = "";
openTime = "",
closeTime = "",
phoneNum = 0,
dashboardDetails = false,
createdBy = userId
}
ShopList.insert(ShopDetails,function(error,result){
if(error){
console.log(error);
}else{
console.log(result);
}
});
}
And then just call it inside the onCreatedHook
Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options,user){
var userId = user._id;
insertShopDetails(userId);
return user;
});
The above thing should work, but why dont you better do this using a hook?
meteor add matb33:collection-hooks
Meteor.users.after.insert(function(userId, doc, modifier) {
var ShopDetails = {
name = "",
postCode = "",
type = "";
openTime = "",
closeTime = "",
phoneNum = 0,
dashboardDetails = false
createdBy = userId
}
ShopList.insert(shopDetails);
});