Storing global and per-user preferences?

[blatwurst]

I'm wondering how I should handle the persisting of global and per-user preferences.

I would like to add functionality to the Web Client that is configurable by integrators and users via a GUI.  To facilitate this configuration, I need to be able to store configuration preferences somewhere on a global and per-user basis.  Is there a framework in Alfresco for doing this?

Also, does Alfresco provide any sort of framework that would help me to write a user preference UI for editing preference values?

TIA for any help!

[ribz33]

User on Alfresco is simply a node with "person" type.
So i think you can extend "person" type with your preferences. (with a custom aspect for instance)

I never did this already, but i think there is no problem to do it.
This is possible with type "content" so this probably possible with type "person"

Best regards.

[blatwurst]

That makes sense Pierre.  Thanks.

Any idea where I should put global (not per-user) prefs?

[ribz33]

I have 2 ideas, that need to be test :
First, cmerson inherit from sys:base so maybe you can add an aspect to this type.
Second possibility(easiest i think), its to add an aspect with your global preferences to root folder, tehn you can store all global preferences on this root folder.

This is just ideas, that need to be evaluate…

[kevinr]

In the web-client codebase there is a PreferencesService class - it is used to store ad-hoc web-client user preferences against the person node object (via an association to a preferences xml node).

You can use the service to get/put simple preferences for a user.

We use the more general core ConfigService classes for global preferences (i.e. based on web-client-config.xml etc. which are based on XML files overridable for customisation)

Thanks,

Kevin