Many a times we face a need to have additional / custom
attributes to be added in Directory Server (LDAP) to store user specific data.
Considering that this additional / custom attribute has been
added to the VMM of Portal. We might have a need to see the value stored in
that attribute for a particular user. This attribute will not appear directly
in the edit user profile page.
Following are the steps to make such attribute available in
the Edit User Profile page:
- In Portal Administration > Manage Pages search for Edit My Profile page
- Click on Edit Page Layout
- In Profile Management Portlet Click Configure
- A list of all the available attributes will appear which are added in the VMM.
- Select the required attribute and click ok.
- Voila!! Now this attribute will start appearing in the Edit User Profile Page.
Another way of doing this is:
- Navigate to Administration > Portlets
- search for Profile Management portlet
- click configure and add attribute name to the coma separate list of wps.portlets.displayed_user_attributes parameter
As per my observation, if we add an attribute of type Boolean
using any of the above two ways, it will not get added to the Edit User Profile
page.
If we have to add a Boolean attribute then adding it as a new
preference in the configure mode of Profile Management portlet will do the
trick.
