IView Properties in Java

Question

Hi,
   Is it possible to set iView Personalization properties from Java? I am writing a JSPDynpage to display some content and want to put a button on this page e.g."Remove"
this should trigger/set the "Remove iView" for that user.
I am able to read the property but want to know how to set.
request.getComponentContext().getProfile().getProperty("com.sap.portal.iview.ShowRemove")[
this is just displaing true or false whether to show this property in personalization or not.
We disabled personalization option for all users,but need this feature for one iView.
Thanks
Tegala

Answer 1

Hi,
The issue seems not to be with the Show Remove property -- this only indicates to the portal whether to display this option to the user.
You seem to be asking how do I actually remove the iView from the page, no?
If so, you query the PCD for the page you want, get from the page the IiView object of the iView you want to hide, and then change the avilability property.
Here is some sample code to do this:
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, IPcdContext.PCD_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
env.put(Constants.REQUESTED_ASPECT, PcmConstants.ASPECT_SEMANTICS);
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, request.getUser());
env.put(IPcdContext.PCD_PERSONALIZATION_PRINCIPAL, request.getUser());
InitialContext iCtx = null;
String pageID = "portal_content/DanielContent/DanRole/Folder1/Folder2/Page1";
try {
  iCtx = new InitialContext(env);
  IPage myPage = (IPage)iCtx.lookup(pageID);
  Enumeration myIviews = myPage.getiViews();
  while (myIviews.hasMoreElements()) {
     Binding bind = (Binding) myIviews.nextElement();
     IiView myIview  = (IiView) bind.getObject();
     myIview.putAttribute(IAttriView.ATTRIBUTE_AVAILABILITY,IAttriViewValues.AVAILABILITY_VALUE_AVAILABLE);
     myIview.save();     
I think the casting to a Binding object can be skipped, and you can cast directly to an iView. This is adapted from another code sample where you wanted to distinguish if the object was an iView or a page and then cast it.
Hope this helps.
Daniel