Remove property from a OOTB component

Question

Hello,
I want to remove an OOTB property from a component - Can I do it using dyn admin or by creating a new properties file ?

Answer 1

Hi ORA-100,
For example if you want to remove a ootb property-firstName.
1. Search & open the repository you want to extend in dyn/admin (in our case it is ProfileAdapterRepository)
2. Click on "Examine Repository Definition" and there you can see-  CONFIGPATH Filename : /atg/userprofiling/userProfile.xml
In the userProfile.xml search the item-descriptor "user" and see a table-  <table name="dps_user">.
In this table ootb properties related to profiles are defined.You can search the 'firstName' property which we are going to remove.
3. Now, you have to layer the userProfile.xml in your custom ATG module at the same location in config path as OOTB xml.
4. NextcCreate a new table which extends the original table keeping important point in mind that a column which stores the repository id of this item-descriptor - we name it as USER_ID. This is basically the primary key of our new (auxiliary) table and is the foreign key for dps_user. This means that the value of column "id" of dps_user is same as "user_id" in custom_user. This is to ensure that our new table is linked to previous table and remove your property there as below-
Here you can copy required tags like gsa-template for an xml from step 2's userProfile.xml; remaing code required for remove operation is as below-
<item-descriptor name="user" cache-mode="simple" item-cache-timeout="550000" query-expire-timeout="550000" xml-combine="append">
<table name="my_user" type="auxiliary" id-column-name="user_id">
<property name="firstName" xml-combine="remove"/>
</table>
</item-descriptor>
Let me know if you face any issue.
Regards,
Prateek Gupta