Additional mongo json properties show as null in graphql query, despite updated schema

A specific object/json/graphql combo in our setup has worked on production for more than a year. I have added some more properties to this object in Mongodb json collection and updated the schema, added data, which i can see in the collection, yet graphql queries only show the new property (which is an array) as null. I have tried the application graphql (nextjs), Postman and the mongodb website tools to query app services, but the new property is always null in the returned json. Am i missing something?

Here is the original query:

query {
	nav {
		_id
		key
		pageId
		children {
			alternateurl
			contentType
			key
			naame
			pageId
			pageLevel
			showonnav
			showonsitemap
			title
			url
			children .... etc
		}
	}
}  

Here is the updated query:

query {
	nav {
		_id
		key
		pageId
		children {
			alternateurl
			contentType
			key
			naame
			pageId
			pageLevel
			showonnav
			showonsitemap
			title
			url
			infoItem {
				itemImageId
				itemLinkObjectId
				itemLinkText
				itemLinkType
				itemLinkUrl
				itemText
				itemTitle
			}
			children .... etc
		}
	}
}

the infoItem section, which is the new section, is only at one level, and does not appear at the lower nested children

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Here you can see there there are values for the new properties in the collection. The schema has been updated to suit the new props (by the “generate” tool)

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Here is a screengrab of the data returned from Postman - with the new property “infoItem” present, but with a null value.

Can anyone help with this?