Sending to both uportal-dev and portlet-dev to insure anyone who might
be affected and want to contribute can. For discussion continuity I
suggest responding only on the uportal-dev user list.
I just discovered that the Guest account has edit access to portlets on
their layout (and soon with UP-4041 and related work portlets not on
their layout). You can duplicate this by putting a portlet such as the
About College Life on the guest layout. The guest user can access the
Edit operation and page.
From my experimentation it appears that any portlet preference changes
are retained for the guest user's session and are not persisted to the
DB -- or at least it doesn't affect other simultaneous guest user
sessions or new guest user sessions. So it appears safe though I won't
say I exhaustively tested it.
Pros:
- Allows the guest user to change portlet / presentation options, such
as switching newsreader items from simple list to flyout for example or
altering which data sources might display.
Cons:
- Strikes me as unexpected behavior and to me a bit unintuitive since I
am used to edit operations affecting the active user account. I
immediately had to test it to see if it was a bug that affected all
future or simultaneous guest sessions.
Are there substantive use cases for retaining the current behavior? I
see some risk (what if the safety mechanisms stopped working) and
possibly added complexity (in preventing storage or storing in http
session as compared to not showing the link and/or preventing the
behavior even if the correct URL was entered).
Should this be considered a bug or undesired behavior? I say yes.
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