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The making of MetroSphere, Part 21: Create custom user attributes

I can't believe that this is only part 21 of this series. Feels like I've done a hundred of them. And this one was done months ago!

The making of MetroSphere, Part 21: Create custom user attributes: There comes a time in every portal's life when it needs to know something specific about its users in order to provide the best possible user experience. On the MetroSphere site, that point came when the team needed to determine the topics in which a particular user was interested so they could use them to "narrow down" the blog entries with which he or she was presented. This article explains how to create custom user attributes for the user to enter during registration and how to use them from within a portlet.