UserInfo Object - adding a UserInfoMap record for PEI

Question

I am creating a onAfterLogin PEI, which uses "LookupUserInfoSettings("DefaultCommunity") to force a redirect to a User's default community. That default community will be populated into the PTPropertyData table via a PWS (which has not yet been written).
After creating the property, adding it to the Global Object Property Map | User, I manually set the value using "AddUserInfoSetting("DefaultCommunity","201").
When trying to use LookupUserInfoSettings("DefaultCommunity") , I notice in PTSpy, that it runs a query which references the table -- PTUserInfoMap. The Property - DefaultCommunity - is not in that table, and thus the query fails.
How can I get that Property into that table, besides manually putting it there? Is there any harm in manually adding that Property to the PTUserInfoMap table? Can anyone suggest another way to make my DefaultCommunity Property available for the onAfterLogin PEI? ...michael

Answer 1

You can modify the map through the UI by opening the User Profile Manager and going to the User Information - Property Map page.
Also, calling AddUserInfoSetting won't persist the setting to the DB, IPTUserInfo was originally designed for in-memory values only in 4.5, and then we wired up a way to populate it from User Profile data in 5.0. To persist the setting you either need to use the IPTObjectProperties interface or call IPTProperty.UpdateValues().