Property extension

Use the property extension, formerly known as the lookaside database, to store extra user attributes into a database store without touching the backend user registry. Use the property extension if the LDAP is read-only but we want users to specify an extra attribute such as Timezone. We can store this extra attribute in the database store. We can also add extra attributes for an application if we cannot change the repository schema. Property extension can be used with a federated repository or a custom user registry.

Web Content Manager stores extra information for the following features:

• Web content user profiling

• Category selection trees

If this information cannot be stored in the main repository, for example the main repository is read-only, a property extension configuration is required.

Parent User registry considerations