User Settings not working. Please help!

Question

<TD noWraplign=right>I am trying to build some interactive portlets using User prefs and have had no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is my code for the first portlet (view_course_defaultView is set as a user preference in the web service):
privatevoidPage_Load(objectsender, System.EventArgs e)
IPortletContext context = PortletContextFactory.CreatePortletContext(Request, Response);
IPortletRequest pRequest = context.GetRequest();
IPortletResponse pResponse = context.GetResponse();
IPortletUser user = context.GetUser();
try
if(user.HasSettingsRight(SettingType.User))
pResponse.SetSettingValue(SettingType.User, "view_course_defaultView", "All");
else
Response.Write("You can't do that");
catch(Exception ex)
Response.Write(ex.Message + ex.StackTrace);
Here is my code for the second portlet (again view_course_defaultView is set as a User preference in the Web Service):
privatevoidPage_Load(objectsender, System.EventArgs e)
try
IPortletContext pContext = PortletContextFactory.CreatePortletContext(Request, Response);
IPortletResponse pResponse = pContext.GetResponse();
IPortletRequest pRequest = pContext.GetRequest();
IPortletUser pUser = pContext.GetUser();
if(pUser.HasSettingsRight(SettingType.User))
Response.Write(pRequest.GetSettingValue(SettingType.User, "view_course_defaultView"));
Response.Write(pRequest.GetSettingCollection(SettingType.User).Count);
catch(Exception ex)
Response.Write(ex.Message + ex.StackTrace);
The only thing written to the screen in the second portlet is 0 for the User settings count. Does anyone see what I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jackie Kajdzik

Answer 1

I am having the same issue.  The Admin, Portal and CommunityPortal prefs set fine.  However, the user pref will not set.  Could this be because this pref is not to be set in this manner?