[Seaside] Accessing configuration values from the configuration

[Avi Bryant]

On 7/21/05, William E Harford <seaside at harford.org> wrote:
>  If there any way to access a site's user inputted configuration values from
> a subclass of WASystemConfiguration ?
>  
>  What I am trying to do is present the site administrator with a series of
> questions in the config biased on  answers that were given in the config. 
>  
>  For example 
>  
>  In this application there might be 3 components. The administrator would
> put the number 3 for a config value than save the config. 
>  
>  The config might than ask for the 3 component classes and there names. 
>  
>  I have only been able to retrieve the default values for a
> SystemConfiguration using.
>  
>  self localConfiguration valueAt: #numberOfContainers. 

Hi Will,

Generally you access configuration values through the application. 
So, from a component, you could do

self session application preferenceAt: #numberOfContainers

The #localConfiguration of a SystemConfiguration is not the same thing
as the settings for a specific application (it's site wide, not app
wide), and it's probably the app-wide settings that your administrator
is editing.

HTH,
Avi