Importing user settings

For installations with a large number of users it can be a tedious task to manually define the user settings (in the menu "My Settings"). You can use Java APIs to migrate user settings from one system to another system.

1. Develop a Java API based extension point (for example, a Scripting Sandbox extension point), custom JSP or a WebService.
2. Retrieve the user settings from the source system using getUserSettingValue() Java API.
3. Set the values to the target system using the Java API setUserSettingValue().

Context context = PIMContextFactory.getCurrentContext();
OrganizationManager manager = context.getOrganizationManager();    	
User user = manager.getUser("User1");
		
for (UserSetting setting : UserSetting.values()) {
	System.out.println("User Setting value: ", user.getUserSettingValue(setting));
}

Context context = PIMContextFactory.getCurrentContext();
OrganizationManager manager = context.getOrganizationManager();    	
User user = manager.getUser("User1");
user.setUserSettingValue(UserSetting.LOCALE, "fr_FR");
user.setUserSettingValue(UserSetting.DATETIMEOUTPUTFORMAT, "M/d/yy h:mm a");
user.save();