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Portal configuration to use new Profile form
You can now use a new form component in profile page, this component use faces and consistent form validation. This form is driven by the user object structure AND the portal configuration file. That means that all fields set as editable in structure will be retrieve by the form but this list will be filtered by what you specified in $profile.editablefields. If no editable fields are provided, all the field defined in structure will be displayed.
All other configurations are still used. If you want to keep the old form you’ll have nothing to do, to use the new form you’ll have to add $profile.useLegacy and set it to true.
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