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cblown
Boss
12 years ago

Lithium Custom Settings - Unable to SET as user

We have a custom setting called user.data (Lithium have setup for us) that is scoped to wcu (world, community, user).   We are trying to SET this custom setting using AJAX - the user account has GR...
  • ChiaraS's avatar
    ChiaraS
    12 years ago

    I'm not sure, but I would try to use a custom user profile instead of settings.
    I did a quick test and the code works fine in that case, the call would be something like:

     

    $.post("/restapi/vc/users/self/profiles/name/user.data/set", {value: "my user data"})

    Check with Lithium support if they can change the current definition to a "profile" one...

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ChiaraS
Lithium Alumni (Retired)

looking at the way the setting was defined, I think you should use "hinterlands.user.data" instead of just "user.data"

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cblown
Boss
12 years ago

Sorry, the original source has hinterlands.user.data - we removed the hinterlands from the source (so as not to include this in the post)

 

Anyway even with that set we still get the same error response. 

 

Are users able to set their own custom settings, or is this an admin only function?