Set user preference before first login

Wednesday 31 August 2005 5:11:24 am

Hello,

I'd like to be able to set some user preferences before the user logins for the first time.

I'd like the content structure treemenu to be expanded and the preview toggle button to be selected in admin site interface when the users login for the first time. Afterwards, they can do what they want.

I tried to set this through the CachedViewPreferences ini value like this:

[ContentSettings]
CachedViewPreferences[full]=admin_navigation_content=1;admin_navigation_details=0;admin_navigation_languages=0;admin_navigation_locations=0;admin_navigation_relations=0;admin_navigation_roles=0;admin_navigation_policies=0;admin_navigation_content=0;admin_navigation_translations=0;admin_children_viewmode=list;admin_list_limit=1;admin_edit_show_locations=0;admin_leftmenu_width=10;admin_url_list_limit=10;admin_url_view_limit=10;admin_section_list_limit=1;admin_orderlist_sortfield=user_name;admin_orderlist_sortorder=desc;admin_search_stats_limit=1;admin_treemenu=1;admin_bookmarkmenu=1;admin_left_menu_width=13

but it failed (ez seems not to take care of these default preference values).

Could someone tell me
1) if I use the right method to achieve this ?
2) how to find what is wrong ?

Many thanks

Olivier

Thursday 01 September 2005 1:08:36 am

After one night thinking about this I came to the same conlusion: I will do it using post publish triggered workflow event.

You conforted me this is the right design

Thanks for your help

Thursday 01 September 2005 1:18:51 pm

Unfortunately I cannot make a contribution with this, I have integrated this change in a very specific extension that is useful only for our customer.

However, I can tell you it works. Just put the following line in the processEvent function:

eZPreferences:setValue('admin_treemenu','1',$objectID);

I use this in conjunction with the importXmlData contrib (http://ez.no/community/contribs/import_export/import_xml_data)
I import the users from a big xml file and a workflow is triggered on each user created in the ez systems. It allows me to set the correct preferences and access rights on the created users. Now, you know everything ;)