Setting user preferences globally

[mdwyer]

I've been searching the CE10 SDK for information about access to the user preferences, specifically for report viewer selection, and am coming up empty. The ePortfolio (or web desktop) CSP pages seem to just read and write cookies, which suggest that the preferences may not be stored in the CMS database at all.

However, the query, "Select SI_DATA from CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS where SI_PROGID = 'CrystalEnterprise.User'", does return a set of values for users who have selected a viewer. But I can't write a query that returns only SI_DATA.WCS_ADMIN_VIEWER. Will WCS_ADMIN_VIEWER be a property of SI_DATA when retrieved in an infoStore query?

And, an independent question: If a cookie is a text file, it should be editable [related to edible]. Where would one find the cookie file written by the preferences pages in ePortfolio? I find cookies on Win2000 in C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Cookies
and in C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files, but the cookies named mike@CEserver*.txt do not contain the cookie names used in the csp code.

 

[synapsevampire]

There's a freebie utility from APOS you should look at:

Check out the user preferences utility:

http://www.apos.on.ca/sections/07-SoftSol-Freeware.shtml

The otehrs should be interesting as well.

-k

 

[mdwyer]

Thanks. I downloaded the three free utilities and am looking forward to trying out the Tree View and the Reschedule pages. But I think I had looked at the Settings Changer previously and rejected it for the same reason I cannot use it now:

It it fully global, listing 14 settings that can be changed. You have to specify ALL 14 for ALL users. You can't set ONE option globally and leave the other 13 to user choice (or 5 and 9, or 10 and 4, etc.) Also, it shows logon credentials for Administrator on a screen that applies to all users. What's with that?

And because the Settings Changer is an exe, I cannot tell how it is going to implement the global settings. Will they be buried in CE where neither Administrator nor the individual user can make individual changes? I was hoping that APOS would take the spreadsheet approach where there would be a matrix of users and prefs and only selected changes would be made.