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If your intent is to store a link to a doc in Meteor.users, I think it uses String _id by default.

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The more general answer to your question is: you're doing it correctly. If userId is an instance of Meteor.Collection.ObjectID, it should not fail validation.

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Ok you were right: with a type String it works. I guess IDs are populated as Meteor.Collection.ObjectID but are stored as String in mongo.

Thank you!

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For anyone else who lands here it looks like SimpleSchema.RegEx.Id is the way to acomplish this now with stricter validation than just String

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if you want to use Mongo.Collection.ObjectID then you always need to specify blackbox: true

_id: { type: Mongo.Collection.ObjectID, blackbox: true },

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