Per window customization even when it is not dashboard

[vivek_saini07]

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 14:48 PM Post subject: Per window customization even when it is not dashboard
I have enabled drag-and-drop property for portal. Now I want to persist the portlet-window location in database when window is dragged from one region and dropped in another region/order. So that when page gets refreshed (or user log in again) he finds the portlet-window at the location it was dragged by him(or by any other user) last time.

Overall I want same functionality as it is provided in dashboard. The reason I can not use dashboard here is dashboard is user specific. In my scenario it should be portalID (even when portalID is not in dashboard context) specific, means any user can change the location of portlet-window,and other users should see this.

till now i have reached to following lines in CustomizationManagerService

if (user != null)
 {
 String userId = getUserId(user);

 // And if it is in a dashboard context we get the per window customization
 if (isDashboard(window, user))
 {
 // That's how we manufacture dash board keys
 String dashboardId = window.getId().toString();

 //
 instance = instance.getCustomization(dashboardId);
 }
 else
 {
 instance = instance.getCustomization(userId);
 }

what i want is per window customization even when it is not dashboard. Is there any way?

[vivek_saini07]

i got it
just change in org.jboss.portal.core.model.portal.command.isDashboard(). Make it return true always. I changed it to following.

 public boolean isDashboard()
 {

// return dashboard;
 return true;
 }

And it reflecting the change i wanted.

[vivek_saini07]

sorry that is not a good solution the better way is change org.jboss.portal.core.model.portal.command.action.MoveWindowCommand.execute()

I commented the following condition

if (isDashboard())

And made that block executed always.

[vivek_saini07]

pls somebody can tell me more elegant solution. The point is I am not allowed to change source code of JBP. Solution should be pluggable. I can only change XMLs like jboss-service.xml. Can I handle this by making new MBean.