[Feature Request] The user preference is not persistent

[StrongPa55word]

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Describe the solution you'd like
It would be ideal to save defaults for Display Attributes( Color/Styling/Property Labels ). Currently the sessions are saved on client side.

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[kmcginnes]

• Related to [Feature Request] Allow saving/sharing connection details #111

[kmcginnes]

@StrongPa55word To clarify, do you mean that styles should be persisted to the server and shared amongst all users for that server?

Today, any customization you make to the styles are persisted to the browser's local storage. This means those customizations are isolated to that one browser.

[henrieglesorotos]

I would also love configurations being persisted server side. Would be a big help for us.

[kmcginnes]

Gotcha. That is something that is not out of the question. But as of right now we have zero server side data persistence. If that changes, saving the configurations server side would become an option.

[henrieglesorotos]

Gotcha. That is something that is not out of the question. But as of right now we have zero server side data persistence. If that changes, saving the configurations server side would become an option.

We looked at using a bookmarklet to run the formatting on load in the browser, but ran into problems.

[tomjennings-beamery]

We looked at using a bookmarklet to run the formatting on load in the browser, but ran into problems.

yeh just to add some colour here, we extracted what we thought were the relevant tables from IndexedDB, then attempted to overwrite with a bookmarklet. We're overwriting the DB successfully, but it's not persisting a refresh unfortunately.

(function () {
    let dbName = 'ge';
    let dbVersion;
    let canonicalData = {
        "graph_explorer": [
            "Default Connection",
            {},
            {},
            {
                "activeToggles": {},
                "activeSidebarItem": "expand",
                "detailsAutoOpenOnSelection": true,
                "tableView": { "height": 300 }
            },
            {
                "vertices": [
                    {
                        "type": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept",
                        "displayLabel": "label"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "https://schema.org/blah",
                        "displayLabel": "Label",
                        "color": "#ff0000",
                        "shape": "barrel",
                        "backgroundOpacity": 1,
                        "displayNameAttribute": "https://schema.org/name"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#ConceptScheme",
                        "displayNameAttribute": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#prefLabel",
                        "shape": "diamond",
                        "color": "#ff0000"
                    }
                ],
                "edges": [
                    {
                        "type": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#inScheme",
                        "displayLabel": "is a type of"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#relatedMatch",
                        "displayLabel": "related to"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ],
        "local-forage-detect-blob-support": []
    };

    let initialRequest = indexedDB.open(dbName);

    initialRequest.onerror = function (event) {
        console.error('Error opening database:', event);
    };

    initialRequest.onsuccess = function (event) {
        let db = event.target.result;
        dbVersion = db.version;
        db.close(); 
        let newVersion = dbVersion + 1;
        let openRequest = indexedDB.open(dbName, newVersion);

        openRequest.onupgradeneeded = function (event) {
            let db = event.target.result;

            Object.keys(canonicalData).forEach(function (storeName) {
                if (db.objectStoreNames.contains(storeName)) {
                    db.deleteObjectStore(storeName);
                    console.log(`Deleted object store: ${storeName}`);
                }

                db.createObjectStore(storeName);
                console.log(`Created object store: ${storeName}`);
            });
        };

        openRequest.onsuccess = function (event) {
            let db = event.target.result;

            let transaction = db.transaction(Object.keys(canonicalData), 'readwrite');

            transaction.oncomplete = function () {
                console.log('Database has been updated with canonical data.');
            };

            transaction.onerror = function (event) {
                console.error('Transaction error:', event);
            };

            Object.keys(canonicalData).forEach(function (storeName) {
                let store = transaction.objectStore(storeName);
                let data = canonicalData[storeName];

                
                if (Array.isArray(data)) {
                    data.forEach(function (item, index) {
                        let request = store.add(item, index); // Using index as the key
                        request.onerror = function (event) {
                            console.error(`Error adding data to ${storeName}:`, event);
                        };
                    });
                } else {
                    let request = store.add(data, 0);
                    request.onerror = function (event) {
                        console.error(`Error adding data to ${storeName}:`, event);
                    };
                }
            });
        };

        openRequest.onerror = function (event) {
            console.error('Error opening database with new version:', event);
        };
    };
})();

I assume either we corrupted the database somehow, or we're missing something!

[kmcginnes]

Hmm, interesting approach. In theory it should work. But perhaps the changes the bookmarklet is making are overwritten before the refresh can happen.

Another approach could be to use the save/load configuration feature. You can save the user's configuration data to a JSON file, then use a utility of some kind to modify the JSON data by inserting your common styles, then load that modified configuration data. It's not as simple as it should be, but it might provide a workable option until something better comes along.

[kmcginnes]

FYI, this feature request is being tracked by the roadmap item:

• [Roadmap] Persisted and Shared User Settings #689