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I cloned the repo to a new PC, and node keystone returned this error to me:

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UBC AgriFood Database Project: Update 0.0.1-admins failed with errors:

ValidationError: Path `institution` is required.


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An error occurred applying updates, bailing on Keystone init.

Error details:
ValidationError: Path `institution` is required.

I'm pretty sure what's happening is that institution was added as a required field for the User model a while ago. So when keystone init tries to add the default admin user, it fails because no institution is provided. This probably has gone unnoticed because we keep reusing the same MongoDB database, so init is never called.

As expected, this error disappears when I remove the required: true part from the User model, but I'm guessing @soohyunkim put it as a required field to prevent new users from signing up without specifying their institution.

Each researcher in our db has name, department, and institution. I think we should require them to fill in their department when they sign up.