Web Profiles and config.txt

For the start of the 2019/2020 academic year a few minor changes have been made to the way in which web profiles are managed. The idea is to place slightly less data in the central database, and slightly more in personal ~/web_profile/ configuration directories. This should make it easier for individuals to manage, and also be more obviously GDPR-compliant.

So there is now an extra file, ~/web_profile/config.txt, which looks something like:

# Personal web site
# 'Y' will expand to your personal TCM website
# 'N' (or blank) for no personal web site on your web profile
# otherwise the URL of your own website
web: N

# Email address for web profile
# 'Y' will expand to an obfuscated form of your @cam email address
# 'N' (or blank) for no email on your web profile
# Anything else a human-readable html representation of your email address
# E.g. 'email: [email protected]' or 'email: j.blogs@gmail.com'
email: 

# Phone number, if blank look up from office number (top floor Mott only)
phone: 

# Show phone number on web. Always shown on internal paper list
show phone: N

This contains several fields formerly in the central database, and is pretty self-explanatory. If it is deleted or otherwise absent, a template will be restored next time web_profile is run. However, for people who existed in August 2019, that template will reflect the settings which they had then.