I'm trying to figure out how to store user settings.
A User goes to Settings. There are lists of services and categories etc and the user selects which of them he/she wants to use. These lists are loaded from .xml files and have a simple structure, ie ServiceName + true/false (selected/not selected). But through the lifetime of the application there will be added another lists so there can be something about 50 .xml files or more.
Is IsolatedStorageSettings everything I need or it is only for application settings and preferences and not for custom user settings?
You can use Application Settings stored in Isolated Storage but for what you're trying to do you might want to look at something like SterlingDB. SterlingDB is simple and it's easy to get up and running. It also uses Isolated Storage.
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Ok, so I need a really Active Directory expert for this one.
I am encoutering a problem where I view different things from different LDAP Browsers.
I want to view the deleted objects container.
When I access Active Directory through ADExplorer I can see this container. When I access the same Active Directory, with the same user from JXplorer I cannot see the deleted objects container.
Also from Softera LDAP Browser happens the same as JXPlorer
Do you have any idea why this is happening?
Do you have maybe any other LDAP Browser you can reccomend?
Thanks
The ability to enumerate the deleted objects container in Active Directory will depend on the software in use (as you found out). To be able to view the deleted objects container (and any deleted objects in general), the software needs to use the LDAP control called LDAP_SERVER_SHOW_DELETED_OID. From the MSDN page:
LDAP_SERVER_SHOW_DELETED_OID control code
The LDAP_SERVER_SHOW_DELETED_OID control is used with an extended LDAP
search function to specify that the search results include any deleted
objects that match the search filter.
Unless the software lets you use a custom LDAP control when connecting to AD (or has builtin support for viewing deleted objects in AD), then it wont be able to see them at all.
i am new to Drupal and want to do the following:
Allow for a simple user registration process
Once the user is registered, allow them to register a project->a project is going to basically have a name, an address and a picture.
Allow for projects to have teams within themselves
kindly guide how to proceed and modules required to do this.
So, there is a core module called "Users". That allows for username creation and authentication. Just go to "admin/modules" and enable it. Then take some time to familiarize yourself with how that works in terms of the experience of creating an account and managing users.
If you require additional login functionality (such as being able to log in using and email address instead of a username), there is a module called LoginToboggan that provides a lot of good functionality
For user profiles, there is a new Drupal 7 module called Profile2 which should meet your needs. Just install it and its dependencies and specify which fields should be in a user profile.
For teams and projects, I think that maybe you're thinking about things the wrong way. Look into the module Organic Groups. That will allow you or users to create their own teams that can then be associated with different nodes.
Finally, create a node type called Project. Specify whatever fields you need for that project. Then, set your permissions so that users can create groups and create new Projects.
I'm looking at way to easily have objects similar to 'fixtures', but for the real database (or my local host work environment).
For example, let's assume I write a blog app. By default (when I load the app in browser, these objects should already be in datastore), it requires an USER (i.e. first admin). While the mechanism is not specific to appengine, I'm interested in this particular case.
Thanks.
Have some admin page in your app, checking if the required data already exists, and asking the user to press a button to insert it (or doing it automatically without even asking the user).
I'm working on a 100% ExtJS application; the browser downloads all the JavaScript and a single HTML file once; everything runs in the browser after that.
When all the panels are rendered at startup (i.e., when Ext.onReady() fires) I need some panels to be hidden depending on the user's permissions. Is there a common/best practice for configuring the GUI at startup depending on user permissions?
I think one solution might be to have some panels hidden by default. An AJAX call could be made at startup to get user permissions, and then panels could be un-hidden depending on those permissions. However, I suspect there are better solutions.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Note: I understand that the front-end javascript can't be trusted as the sole mechanism for security checks and that the backend application would need to verify all the actions received from the front-end.
Why not just write a server-side script that outputs privileged client-side code based on the user's authentication status? Instead of having your client-side code fetch permission data and branch on them, just have the client-side hit a script that outputs the appropriate javascript.
So if you've got a special "SuperAdminPanel" component, the only way the client ever sees the code is if they hit your authentication-aware user-js script, and are recognized as a super-admin.
In the general case, such a script could just echo out the appropriate script for the currently-authenticated user's level. It could easily be extended to pass code or configuration specific to individual users, as well.
I'm attempting to iterate through all User Profiles in SharePoint 2010 from a Silverlight application that will be added to a SharePoint page. Based on what I've learned, the User Profile Service is different than the SharePoint Website's store of a list of users who are "members" of the site or have ever visited it. To get that list of users, see this question.
I know about the asmx web service that SharePoint 2010 provides at mysite.com/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx, but that doesn't seem to have anything like a GetAllUserProfiles method. The closest it looks like I can get is by iterating through all users with successive calls to the GetUserProfileByIndex method, but that's far from optimal.
Is there a way to access User Profiles via a built-in Sharepoint 2010 REST-ful service, such as what's provided for site links at mysite.com/_vti_bin/listdata.svc/Links? If not, what approach do you recommend to get all existing User Profiles in SharePoint 2010?
EDIT:
The purpose of this is to provide summary profile information in the Silverlight control. For example, showing the User Profiles that have the most "Interests" set in their profile. This task is only possible by iterating through all User Profiles.
Are you sure you want to do this through a web service? Getting all links for a user means 20 simple urls. Getting all user profiles means 20,000 large complex objects.
Iterating through all profiles is something I have done in import code, but outside of that I can't think of a scenario where it wouldn't make more sense to use search - especially when user interaction is involved.