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Item3728: User preferences won't override Web preferences

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I observed that on various TWiki installations (4.0.4, 4.1.0, 4.1.2) . It seems that User preferences won't override Web preferences. Yet User preferences do override Site preferences as one would expect. Most of my testing was done using SKIN.

Can someone try to reproduce that bug?

-- TWiki:Main/StephaneLenclud - 06 Mar 2007

In TWikiVariables you find the spec for the settings precedence

You can set variables in all the following places:
  1. local site level in TWiki.TWikiPreferences
  2. plugin topics (see TWikiPlugins)
  3. local site level in Main.TWikiPreferences
  4. user level in individual user topics in Main web
  5. web level in WebPreferences of each web
  6. topic level in topics in webs
  7. session variables (if sessions are enabled)

The settings overwrite each other in the order shown.

Ie. Session overrides topic, topic overrides web, web overwrites user, user overwrites local site etc etc

So what you report is not a bug. It is exactly how it should work.

If you want to prevent a setting to be overwritten by a later setting, you use the FINALPREFERENCES variable as described in TWikiVariables.

We have discussed this order of precedence heavily the past year and the current order is the one most could agree on which gives the best overall flexibility.

So if you want to define a skin that can be overwritten at user level then you need to define it at site level.

-- TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen - 06 Mar 2007

Ok thanks for the clarification, I should RTFM really smile It does not seem right to me though. I feel like user preferences should be stronger than web preferences and possibly topic preferences too. Surely if a user goes through the trouble of setting preferences on his home topic he wants to see them taking precedence over every thing else but session variables.

IMHO 4 should move to 6. Did you guys discussed that somewhere in the Codev? What about making that behavior customizable through configure for instance?

-- TWiki:Main.StephaneLenclud - 07 Mar 2007

Thanks a lot Kenneth by using FINALPREFERENCES on my user topic I was able to achieve the desired behavior by preventing web level to override that one preference.

-- TWiki:Main.StephaneLenclud - 07 Mar 2007

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Summary User preferences won't override Web preferences
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.StephaneLenclud
Codebase 4.0.4, 4.1.0, 4.1.2
SVN Range TWiki-4.1.2, Sat, 03 Mar 2007, build 13043
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