[opencms-dev] Personalization + General Questions

[Thomas März]

Hello,

I am trying to use personalized content with OpenCms.
But until now I am quite at the beginning with this task.

First I have some questions to point
3.4.9 (Personalization) in the Documentation.

1. "Web page content is easily adapted
   to each user's profile and preferences."
   But how do I do this?

2. "specify their preferences manually or let them
   be automatically generated by enabling
   the system to analyze their surfing habits."
   Where is this done?

Now I have some other questions.

1. Is there a difference between a Web-User
   and a Guest-User?

2. If I want to provide a formular to register
   a new user - to provide personalized content -
   do I have to use the addWebUser method?
   And if yes, do I need to to login as Admin
   in my class that adds the user first to add
   this User (with the addUser method I have to)?

Let's say now I have different users in different groups.

1. How do I administer personalized content for every
   user and/or every group of users best?
   Is this done by the permissions of the files?
   And where/how do I store different content
   for different groups/users best?

2. Is there already a solution available I didn't see?
    If not could somebody give me a clue how I should
    do this? With a templateselector for every group in every file?

Now I have some general questions.

1. What for is the administration-point "Channels"?
   I still couldn't figure out.
   Probably for personalization? ;-)

2. Can I somehow test new classes whithout restarting Tomcat?


I hope my questions are not too stupid neither to annoying
and hopefully can somebody help me.

Thanks a lot.

Thomas Maerz