Expando/Custom Attribute Questions

[David Corpuz, geändert vor 8 Jahren.]

Good day,

I'm currently doing some development work for Liferay and we are currently experimenting on Expando/Custom Attributes for the Users in Liferay. Here is my question.

Can a user retrieve an Expando value for a user that doesn't have a mapped expando attribute? or does it require to be mapped?
Ex :
customerID expando field has a default of 00000
User1 has customerID as an Expando Filed and is mapped to a value of 00001 while User2 doesn't have customerId custom attribute saved in the database as an Expando field

Hope someone can answer my question.

Thanks,

[James Falkner, geändert vor 8 Jahren.]

When you define a custom attribute for the User entity, then all users will have that custom attribute. If a specific user has not defined a value for that attribute, then the defalut value should be returned. There's no way to define a per-user attribute (only the value of the attribute can differ between users).