I don't know that it does in all cases. I would make that functionality
optional if it's coded. Some portlets, might implement functionality in
their EDIT mode that doesn't necessarily have to do with the Portlet
Preferences. Sure, in general that's what EDIT mode should be for, but
there is no requirement for it to be that way.
However, if as an Admin for a uPortal instance, I know all the portlets
I put on my Guest view, have EDIT modes that don't make sense, for
'guests', then I think it's reasonable, to have a way to turn it off.
---- Cris J H
Jason Shao (CampusEAI Consortium) wrote:
On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Eric Dalquist wrote:
Jen realized today playing in the 3-RC3 quickstart that if a portlet
allows guest users to change portlet preferences these are persisted
for the guest user and shared between all guest users. We're pretty
sure this same behavior exists in 2.X as well. Since we have a portlet
with preferences on the guest layout in 3.0 we're going to work out a
solution to the problem as follows.
The PortletPreferencesServiceImpl will have some additional options
available via bean properties; first to just not store portlet prefs
for guest users, second to store them in the guest user's session so
they are scoped and disappear at the end of their session, third to
leave the functionality as is.
If this sounds reasonable I'm also wondering how we define who a guest
is. Should the code check IPerson.isGuest() or
IPerson.getSecurityContext().isAuthenticated()?
Am wondering if it also makes sense from a UI perspective to hide the
edit button for portlets when rendered in the guest mode. Does the idea
of customizing preferences even really make sense for guests, since
there's no persistance?
Jason
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