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Mar 17, 2007 at 07:07 PM

Best Place to Store Portal User and Group Profile Information

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My environment is NW 04S

My question is this: In an environment where each user belongs to group and will have both user information like name, address etc plus information related to the group to which they belong like like supplier1, supplier2 etc that must be dynamically obtained (ie not stored by /thru the admin tools, but obtained programatically), where is the best place to store this information during a portal user session? The documentation I have read have indicated additional attributes are possible for UME based user profiles, but what if the information is at the group level and needs to be dynamically obtained? Is a login module the best place to dynamically populate the SAP User Info?

To clarify:

1) Where is the best place from which to retrieve the external user/group info data?

a login module?

2) Where should such information for the user and the GROUP reside during a user portal session so that it is secure and only available to those portal apps that need to access it? I am particularly interested in finding the right place to support supplementary group level info that the user will have, and keeping it the portal in a secure manner during the user portal session.

Thanks.