AutoComplete : Can it be disabled for specific individual users?

Hi Friends,

Needed your guidance to find a workaround to see if AutoComplete feature, available from D6 component onwards, can this feature be disabled for specific individual users from backend, like somewhere in the code?

As far as I could browse and research, I could realize that this feature can be

[1] turned off globally, by disabling it from wdk/app.xml file, in auto_complete tags.

[2] For individual user, could see that the specific user himself can login and disable Auto-complete feature from Tools > Preferences Tab and then, unchecking the checkbox fo AutoComplete.

I needed to understand, when an individual user unchecks this checkbox, to disable AutoComplete feature, where does this configuration change happens to isolate this specific user from AutoComplete feature, otherwise enabled globally.

Any help or pointers to this, in achieving to disable AutoComplete feature for specific individuals, much appreciated and would be of great help!

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DCTM_Guru

Preference values are stored in the global registery. They used to be stored as cookie, but EMC wanted user preferences to be true user preferences and not dependent on the computer. I actually have never poked around the global registery to see how this data is stored.

Also, please move this thread one to the Documentum Developer Network. Select "Move discussion" from the Actions menu and choose the appropriate forum, as described in the Guidelines. EMC is trying to have technical questions posted there:

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jasjesin

Thanks Johnny,

moved this query to Documentum Developer Community now.

Hi Friends,

Appreciate if you could help me resolve this issue.

I'm targetting at an attempt to disable AutoComplete Feature, for specific individual users, from the backend application code.

Any pointers towards this would be really helpful.

DCTM_Guru

Try looking under this folder in the global registery repository and see if user registery object is there:

/Resources/Registry/Preferences/Webtop

jasjesin

Hi Johnny,

I tried that before posting the query here.

Those files are in the format of :-

1. <userID>.autocomplete

2. <userID>.preferences

These files look more to be like log files, that showcase, what all inputs, a user had entered till date in each of the standard input-controls of WDK, and in future, if the user enters any word, that has already been recorded, then, the complete recorded word or phrase, will be displayed in the drop-down, as user starts typing initials of that word.

I believe, for each user, there has to be some configuration set somehwre, that actually triggers these log files to get updated.

I'm looking forward to find out that configuration, that, for now, looks to get changed, when user "unchecks" or "checks" the option from Tools>Preferences for AutoComplete from UI of WDK.

lastnitescurry

1) Examine the preferences code to see how it is done in java.

2) extend "main" component to add custom logic to disable autocomplete for users XX or YY.