In a recent post I wrote how wonderful the ADF support for user level customizations or personalizations is, and then I went on to explain how the user can be enabled to remove her own personalizations (http://technology.amis.nl/2012/09/27/adf-undo-the-users-page-personalizations-query-and-manipulate-mds/). This article a sequel to that story. It will introduce the capability for one user to clone the personalizations from another user. This means at the background that the document that contains the customizations for a page for the ‘source user’ is read and a new document with the exact same contents is written for the ‘target user’ who will then have personalizations that are at that time exactly the same as those of the source user. There is no link between the two documents – they are both on their own. Any pre-existing personalizations for the target user are lost in this process.

Note: I do not talk about the privileges that you want to define in order to not have anyone copying from just anyone else. Also note that I discuss cloning the personalizations for a single page only. Copying all personalizations from one user to another however is a very simple extension of what More >