Global Portal User Personalization

Hi All,
I have a need to create some customer personalization properties for a user that I can use globally. An example is I need to map the LDAP userid to a customer number, lbs vs kgs preferences, etc ... I would like to be able to get the customer number from any iView. I would like to the users to set them once from the Personalize workset. What are some of my options?
I'm looking into the following, but none of them seem to be perfect answers:
1) Pick a field we are not using and store them in the Active Directory LDAP.
2) iView by iView personalization.
3) par by par personalization.
4) create a new table in the Oracle db to store these mappings.
5) Setup a UserMapping system, to store the mappings.
Has anybody else done something like this?
Thanks,
Mike Shroyer

Hi Mike,
see store some user properties/attributes
The problem may be the LDAP as let open in the thread given... sorry, cannot give more detailed advice, maybe someone else... (or just try).
Hope it helps
Detlev
PS: Also see Adding custom attribute in EP user engine

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the security policy can be used to seperate different user types...
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Quinn,
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1) the normal database objects they have rights to do NOT show up in the browse database objects. In Webdb 2.2. all of these objects show up fine. The ability to browse database objects was one of the good things about Webdb that we need to preserve.
Ans))
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Is there a technical paper that discusses exactly how to map db users to portal users and how to transfer rights, privileges etc. so we can make portal 3.0 as functional as webdb 2.2 was?
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c) What are global privileges?
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====================
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Hi All,
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Regards,
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Edited by: Arpit1983 on Jun 25, 2010 12:09 AM

Hi,
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