I've been doing it the way you describe for (.. thinks ...) the last four or five years.
Rather than copying across all the items, I usually have some definition of which items will be saved (the rest are discarded). This is useful when you have working or display fields that you dont' want to save on the backend document.
This is actually a first stage in a "pattern" I use a lot, which is to decouple the form from the document. Usually, the form has a significant bearing upon what is stored in the document. If you decouple them, it doesn't.
You can do this with normal documents as well as profile documents.
I've been doing it the way you describe for (.. thinks ...) the last four or five years.
Rather than copying across all the items, I usually have some definition of which items will be saved (the rest are discarded). This is useful when you have working or display fields that you dont' want to save on the backend document.
This is actually a first stage in a "pattern" I use a lot, which is to decouple the form from the document. Usually, the form has a significant bearing upon what is stored in the document. If you decouple them, it doesn't.
You can do this with normal documents as well as profile documents.