per-user templating UI customizations

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Has anyone found a way to do per-user templating UI customizations? For instance, some users like paginated templates, some don't; some users want VFE inline, some prefer the callout.

For hacks I've written (like hiding the navigation pane) I can use JavaScript in the browser to parse an XML file available over HTTP containing user preferences, but for the standard stuff I'm not sure there's any way. For instance, is there a URL parameter or anything that tells the datacapture servlet to ignore items-per-page in templating.cfg?

Migrateduser

You could certainly write an inline to configure the VFE choice. You would have to set up a way to manager user specific settings and possible a template of CGI to maintain it.

You could also configure a call server CGI that would, say, set some variable values (i.e., var hidethisthing = true; var makeThisreadonly=true, etc....) then invoke a function to this the values and take the appropriate action. This would probably only work for simple options.

This would not override the items-per-page. You would probably have to disable that and manually control container visibility.

The are other, unsupported options which I can discuss without offline.