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User 2.5 RetrievePreferences

How to retrieve preferences for existing Content Manager users.

Parameters

NameTypeDirectionDescription
psAuthContextStringInOutDeprecated proprietary authentication context only used by .ASMX web services based on internal username/password authentication. Claims based security standards drive all the WCF .SVC web services, making this parameter redundant.
psUserIdStringInThe element name of the user (e.g. VUSERADMIN).
psXMLPreferencesStringOutPreferences XML structure with the preferences of the user.

Requirements are:
  • The user must be an administrator or the psUserId must be an element name of the current user.