Retrieving Data from Meteor Collections

Question

I\'m having a few problems when trying to get data from a Meteor Collection and I need some advice.

The collection has been defined, published, and subscribed successful

Answer 1

I recently had the same problem, The collection find() returned nothing when used from a query.observe.

The problem was the order of the subscribe of collections.

For example if you have a collection called Lists and one called Projects,

If you're getting the projects by observing a query on lists, and you had :

Meteor.subscribe('Lists');
Meteor.subscribe('Projects');  

What happens is the query observe trigger is called, but the Projects are not yet fetched from the server. So Projects.find().fetch().length = 0.

To fix it, simply do

Meteor.subscribe('Projects');    
Meteor.subscribe('Lists');