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Distibute Column Profiles to All Users

Laserfiche Administration

Updated February 12, 2016

asked on February 11, 2016

If I have some Column Profiles setup on my user account and I want to distribute them to all users are there any implications of Exporting my XmlColumnProfiles attributes and importing them into the Everyone usergroup.

Say if another user has different column profiles setup which are different then mine, will they over-write any of their XmlColumnProfile attributes or just add to them?

Thanks very much for any help.
-Eric

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replied on February 12, 2016

Ege is correct, exporting your personal XMLColumnProfiles and importing them into the everyone group will make those profiles globally available. The column profile sub-menu will show your personal profiles above a divider and the global ones below it. Although it isn't necessarily recommended, Web Access 10 actually does correctly handle name conflicts between individual profiles and global profiles.

As to your final question Eric, the local profiles are stored in the user's attributes and the global profiles are stored in the everyone group. There should be no overwriting of profiles or anything like that. Web Access and the Client will look at both attributes separately and combine them in the column profiles list so you don't have to worry about appending to the individual user's attribute.

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Exporting the column profiles from the user and importing them to the Everyone group is indeed how you distribute them to all users. Note that it doesn't work at the group level. Only at individual user level and the Everyone level.

Regarding your second question, I believe the answer is it will add to the Everyone group's profiles (unless there's a name conflict, in which case the user's will take priority), but I'm not fully certain. Someone from Laserfiche will have to chime in.

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