Sync User Settings so They Follow the User

[jolierabideau]

User Story As a user, I want to store my settings, so that I can maintain consistent settings across computers.

Description Sync user settings so a user's settings follow them around between computers

• [ ] TBD: Add something to the settings schema to indicate whether the setting should be synced.
• [ ] Set up settings to sync with the S/R server's new endpoints (Andrew Bulin and Matt Getgen to provide details at some point)

Implementation idea See the links below for UX design doc and mockup:

Platform Settings – FigJam

Combined Settings – v0 by Vercel

[irahopkinson]

Another option is to store settings in a collaborative Y.Doc and have it automatically sync via the collab server.

[tjcouch-sil]

From Matt Getgen:

• Registry stores project settings in database
• S/R server stores
  • project settings also in project files
  • Paratext settings xml (settings from user) - user.config file?

Helpful to have (asked Matt G to consider):

• Which Paratext settings are saved on S/R server?
• How to get currently saved Paratext-related settings
• Separate api for storing some other blob in S/R server related to Platform Settings. Probably nice to be able to specify which application (Platform.Bible, Paratext 10 Studio, etc.) we're saving for
  • Could we authenticate based on who you say you are? Make sure you can't upload for someone else
  • Would possibly be helpful to validate that data server-side with some fairly simple logic

[tjcouch-sil]

Sounds like Andrew and Matt are ready to go on this, so we will go with storing settings on the S/R server for now!

JSON Schema provided to Andrew and Matt for validating against our settings on their server.

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "Platform.Bible Saved Settings Data",
  "description": "Platform.Bible settings data serialized to JSON. Saved to file.",
  "type": "object",
}