Comments inline: --- Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You received several answers about security, but > that is not what you > want, right? You want to be able to set and to > deliver user > preferences. Exactly. >As part of any suggestion about how > you should do this, > one would need to know what the app is all about. > Different solutions > for different problems is key, no? There are two types of data that I would want to access. One is user preferences and the other is user's application configuration. The preferences would include information about alert boxes, GUI skins, "favorites" information. The "favorites" information is related to the data that entered into frequently filed out forms (enabling the user to quickly auto-fill a form). The application configuration indicates what functionalities of the application are available for a particular user. A user would be able to inherit configurations and preferences from the group they belong to based on their role(s - this is a one-to-many relationship - 1 user --- * role(s)). The group would in turn inherit from the organization's (global) configurations and preferences. There are several organizations, each isolated from another, so the configurations would have to be uniquely associated with an organization and inspected at runtime. I currently am loading XML configs directly from the file system, but this will not work in a distributed environment serving several independent organizations. Users will be able to update some of the information in these configurations and preferences. Thanks a ton. Julian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
