Is it possible to grant role privileges to a user by document (not collection) in MongoDB? I am working on a database for investigation purposes. I want to make some of that information public but other pieces of information are highly confidential. 

I want to create a user and grant access only to the public information inside a document of a collection. For example in my collection "people", i want to show the name but not the phone number:

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5910e7abce41fe759ebb1720"),
   "name" : "name",
   "phone" : "999999999"
}


How can i achieve this? I only found how to grant User-Defined Roles by collection. 

db.createRole(
{
 role: "myClusterwideAdmin",
 privileges: [
   { resource: { cluster: true }, actions: [ "addShard" ] },
   { resource: { db: "config", collection: "" }, actions: [ "find", "update", "insert", "remove" ] },
   { resource: { db: "users", collection: "usersCollection" }, actions: [ "update", "insert", "remove" ] },
   { resource: { db: "", collection: "" }, actions: [ "find" ] }
 ],
 roles: [
   { role: "read", db: "admin" }
 ]
},
{ w: "majority" , wtimeout: 5000 }
)   


Should i create a "public information" collection or is there a better way?
No, you cannot grant rights for document... But you can do views what shows only that public information.