Umbraco8 ContentApp - Where to store user settings
Hi Peeps,
A question regarding creating contentApps for Umbraco8.
An App I am creating requires storing third party api credentials which are user specific.
Where would the best place to store these be?
Would these just go in the web.config and then I need to add some deployment notes along with the app when it comes to publishing. That or a config file within my App_Plugin folder?
Are is there a better place to store these to make then easily configurable in the Umbraco backend?
Is this a single app that is used by multiple users via a central website/login? A little more info would help.
If there are only a few credentials that they all share, the webconfig in the app_plugin would probably be you best bet. If the number of credentials increases with the number of users, look at using a database table.
This is for an App I plan to publish into the Umbraco packages library.
There is only a few settings. Actually probably one. An API key which will be set by the user.
I had already added them into web config but I was just wondering if there is any other recommend place we should be adding these. Such as possible within the package.manifest or somewhere like that.
After digging around I found some references to Package Actions and it seems that you can create a package action to add these types of settings automatically to the web.config when someone installs my package.
This sort of answered my question as I can see other people are saving these types of settings in to the web.config too. That can I learn a good way how to have these auto populated with some default config.
Umbraco8 ContentApp - Where to store user settings
Hi Peeps,
A question regarding creating contentApps for Umbraco8.
An App I am creating requires storing third party api credentials which are user specific.
Where would the best place to store these be?
Would these just go in the web.config and then I need to add some deployment notes along with the app when it comes to publishing. That or a config file within my App_Plugin folder?
Are is there a better place to store these to make then easily configurable in the Umbraco backend?
Thanks in advanced.
David
Hi David,
Is this a single app that is used by multiple users via a central website/login? A little more info would help.
If there are only a few credentials that they all share, the webconfig in the app_plugin would probably be you best bet. If the number of credentials increases with the number of users, look at using a database table.
Hi Graham,
This is for an App I plan to publish into the Umbraco packages library.
There is only a few settings. Actually probably one. An API key which will be set by the user.
I had already added them into web config but I was just wondering if there is any other recommend place we should be adding these. Such as possible within the package.manifest or somewhere like that.
After digging around I found some references to Package Actions and it seems that you can create a package action to add these types of settings automatically to the web.config when someone installs my package.
Thanks @paulseal. https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2017/creating-and-publishing-a-package/
This sort of answered my question as I can see other people are saving these types of settings in to the web.config too. That can I learn a good way how to have these auto populated with some default config.
How this helps someone with a similar question.
Kind Regards
David
The appsettings section of the web.config in the root folder would be the appropriate place.
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