Thanks Sean. I'll have a look at creating a custom model!

A somewhat related question here... I've also thought about using a separate 
database for user prefs, either riak or amazons dynamo db. Any tips on how to 
create a custom data source?

- Matt

On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure. It will ignore columns beyond the fourth, which is an optional
> timestamp. If you just want it to read some common input file but
> ignore the unused columns, that's easy.
> 
> You can copy and modify FileDataModel to do whatever you like, if you
> want it to use this data. You'd have to change other code to use your
> new data somehow.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Matt Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'd like to store additional information in my user preference data
>> files. Is it possible, to add more columns to the file that
>> FileDataModel uses? For example, an additional ID that maps to my
>> applications database ID for item-ids, a simple 3 char code for
>> possible use in custom user-user similarity etc.. Is this possible?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> - Matt

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