alfresco-ng2-components/docs/core/user-preferences.service.md

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Added	Status	Last reviewed
v2.0.0	Active	2018-04-16

User Preferences Service

Stores preferences for components.

Class members

Methods

• get(property: string, defaultValue?: string): string
  Gets a preference property.

  • property - Name of the property
  • defaultValue - (Optional) Default to return if the property is not found

• set(property: string, value: any)
  Sets a preference property.

  • property - Name of the property
  • value - New value for the property

• getStoragePrefix(): string
  Gets the active storage prefix for preferences.

• setStoragePrefix(value: string)
  Sets the active storage prefix for preferences.

  • value - Name of the prefix

• getPropertyKey(property: string): string
  Gets the full property key with prefix.

  • property - The property name

• getDefaultPageSizes(): number[]
  Gets an array containing the available page sizes.

• getDefaultLocale(): string
  Gets the default locale.

• select(property: string) : Observable Return the value for the user status property changed

  • property - The property name to query

Details

The preferences are bound to a particular prefix so the application can switch between different profiles on demand.

For example, upon login you can set the prefix to the current username:

import { UserPreferencesService, AuthenticationService } from '@alfresco/adf-core';

@Component({...})
class AppComponent {
    constructor(private userPreferences: UserPreferencesService,
                private authService: AuthenticationService) {
    }

    onLoggedIn() {
        this.userPreferences.setStoragePrefix(
            this.authService.getEcmUsername()
        );
    }
}

As soon as you assign the storage prefix, all settings that you get or set via the UserPreferencesService will be saved to a dedicated profile.

You can import the service into your controller and use its APIs as shown below:

@Component({...})
class AppComponent {
    constructor(userPreferences: UserPreferencesService) {

        userPreferences.set('myProperty1', 'value1');
        userPreferences.set('myProperty2', 'value2');

        console.log(
            userPreferences.get('myProperty1')
        );
    }
}

The service also provides quick access to a set of the "known" properties used across ADF components:

Name	Type	Description
authType	string	Authorization type (can be "ECM", "BPM" or "ALL").
disableCSRF	boolean	Prevents the CSRF Token from being submitted if true. Only valid for Process Services.
paginationSize	number	Pagination size.
locale	string	Current locale setting.

User Preference onChange Stream

Whenever a property is set with the user preference service, an onChange event is sent with the whole set of user properties. This is useful when a component needs to react to a property change:

    userPreferences.paginationSize = 10;
    userPreferences.onChange().subscribe((userStatusValues) => {
        console.log(userStatusValues.PAGINATION_SIZE); //this will be 10
    });

You can also use the select method to get notification when a particular property is changed. A set of basic properties is added into the enumeration UserPreferenceValues which gives you the key value to access the standard user preference service properties : PaginationSize, DisableCSRF, Locale and SupportedPageSizes.

    userPreferences.disableCSRF = true;
    userPreferences.select(UserPreferenceValues.DisableCSRF).subscribe((CSRFflag) => {
        console.log(CSRFflag); //this will be true;
    });