Per user preferences

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Currently there is no mechanism to set per-user preferences.

Feel like contributing to open-source :)

-sg

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 listuser at neo.pittstate.edu wrote:

> Is there a way to specify different preferences on a user by user basis?
> While I don't mind audio alerts, I'm sure some of my colleagues might not
> find them so helpful. :)  To go along with this, I think some people
> prefer the maps to default to a different view as well.  Perhaps this is
> something that could be added to the user's contact definition?  
> 
> Along these same lines, would it be posible to use cookies to control how
> often a sound is played?  I generally keep my browser on the tactical
> overview and don't really want to know that the print server in a far off
> building is still down. :)  Perhaps a checkbox (to turn audio alerts off 
> for that session) and/or a drop down menu and submit button to specify
> audio alert intervals would help.  My PacketShaper's online pages that
> update at regular intervals let me specify the intervals just such a
> setup.  I can tell it to update every 1, 5, 15, and 60 minutes.  120 and
> 240 would be useful for audio alerts though I imagine.
> 
> To go along with the user-defined audio intervals, I think many would find
> it useful to control how often their pages reload.  A similar deal could
> be used for it as well.  The status.cgi could reference that value (within
> limits) for it's META refresh value.
> 
> Does anyone else think per-user settings would be useful?  I turned on
> audio alerts today and the idea quickly popped into my head. ;-)
> 
> Justin
> 

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