Users are part of FarCry's builtin user directory. LDAP, Active Directory, and OpenID are examples of other possible user directories. If you think about these other user directories for a moment you'll notice one important point - FarCry can't store data in them. It's possible to set FarCry up to query the data in these (particularly in 5.0) but we can't update it and dmUser is meant to be interchangable with an Active Directory account or an OpenID url. FarCry is designed so that it can work with any of these as long as the user directory provides a userid.
On the other hand, dmProfile is the internal store for a user. It stores FarCry data for an arbitrary userid. Does this help? Blair On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Matthew Williams < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of things I've oft wondered about was the separation of profiles > and users. They were always intended to be a 1 to 1 relationship, > right? So why are the separate? I'm going to be adding some of these > fields to my user object in my current project, and it looks like I > won't run into any issues provided I don't try and send versioning > emails out. The locale stuff should still work fine, and these users > won't be logging into the admin site at all. Just curious as to the > "why". > > > Matthew Williams > Geodesic GraFX > www.geodesicgrafx.com/blog > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
