Web Service to just do .setProperty() and .store()

Question

I am working on a Portal Component in the PDK for .NET which will take values selected from a CheckBoxGroup, concatenate it to a string and write that to a single Personalization preference.
However, the PDK for .NET does not support writing Personalization preferences to the PCD. Thus, I have determined the solution to be:
Make a Portal Service that takes a value and writes it to the Personalization of an iView. Basically it needs to simply do a:
IPortalComponentProfile profile =
request.getComponentContext().getProfile;
profile.setProperty("selectedVal", myData);
profile.store();
Then this will be converted to a Web Service. However, how will the Web Service know what iView its writing Personalization for?
I've searched and searched and come up with little clues here and there that I've somewhat pieced together but no concrete solutions. Please help. This is pretty urgent. Thanks! --Shibli

Answer 1

Hi Shibli,
I don't understand the limitation. You can build a portal service and expose it as a web service. The service can take the PCD address of the iView to personalize, plus the attribute value, as parameters.
The underlying portal service can do whatever you want it to do -- in this case, write to the PCD. There should be no limitation due to web services or .NET.
Hope this helps.
Daniel