How to set same meta data across collections? - docpad

Am trying to set a product category on different collections but only the last collection defined in docpad.coffee actually sets it when trying it like so
firstCollection: ->
#getCollection("html").findAllLive().on "add", (model) ->
model.setMeta({category: 'first'})
secondCollection: ->
#getCollection("html").findAllLive().on "add", (model) ->
model.setMeta({category: 'second'})
document.categorywill be 'second' for all documents of each collection.
How to set the same meta data individually per doc in a collection?

What problem are you trying to solve? Because your approach is not going to work. If you share what you're trying to do, we may be able to suggest an alternative approach.
Your current approach won't work because you are setting a metadata property named "category" that is a string. That metadata property lives on the documents in the collection and not on the collection itself.
Both collections are pointing at the same set of documents. Each individual document can only have a single value for that property. It can't be both 'first' and 'second'. The last one to set it wins, and in this case, the event that sets it to 'second' is happening last and so all of the documents have 'second' as the value for that metadata property.

Update: I found a better way to do this: model.setMetaDefaults({foo:'bar'})
For example, to create a blog collection with a default cssClass of post:
collections: {
blog: function() {
return this.getCollection("documents")
.findAllLive({relativeOutDirPath:'blog'}, [{filename:-1}])
.on("add", function (model) {
model.setMetaDefaults({'cssClass': 'post'})
});
}
},
This would go in your docpad.coffee file or, in my case, docpad.js.
See a working example with full context at https://github.com/nfriedly/nfriedly.com/blob/master/docpad.js#L72 (collection is called "techblog", starts around like 72).

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