Convert ObjectID to String in mongo Aggregation

I couldn't find a way to do what I wanted, so instead, I created a MapReduce function that, in the end, generated the keys the way I wanted to (concatenating other keys).

At the end, it looked something like this:

db.collection('myCollection').mapReduce(
    function() {
        emit(
            this.userRef.str + '-' + this.serialNumber , {
                count: 1,
                whateverValue1:this.value1,
                whateverValue2:this.value2,
                ...
            }
        )
    },
    function(key, values) {
       var reduce = {}
       .... my reduce function....
        return reduce
    }, {
        query: {
            ...filters_here....
        },
        out: 'name_of_output_collection'
    }
);

Now you can try with $toString aggregation which simply converts ObjectId to string

db.collection.aggregate([
    { "$addFields": {
        "userRef": { "$toString": "$userRef" }
    }},
    { "$group": {
      "_id": { "$concat": ["$userRef", "-", "$serialNumber"] }
    }}
])

You can check the output here