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Mar 26, 2009 at 01:46 PM

App Integrator, and custom URL parameters using Customer Exits

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We're using the application integrator to fire off an application, using customer exit's to provide user-specific values for some of the query parameters. I need to have a way of storing these custom values for each user, as well as letting the user modify the values in some way. The lookup of the user-specific values would be layered, in that default values could be specified by a user 'admin'; the default values would be used if the user does not have any values defined specifically for themselves. There will be many of these iViews, each with customizable parameters.

My first thought was to define custom iView properties at runtime (via the customer exit), but I don't think this can be done - my current thoughts are that personalization properties must be defined in portalapp.xml, and can't be changed on the fly....

I do have a backend 'personalization' database that I use for web applications running on another server that I can get at via a web service (which I would have to deploy, something I'm not too keen on doing). The customer exit would use this web service to populate values, which would in turn find their way into the URL using the URL template feature of the app integrator.

Has anyone else done something similar to this? If so, how did you do it?