ZENworks® for Desktops Application Management enables you to organize Application objects into folders. Folders show up in the Novell® Application LauncherTM/Explorer window and on the Windows* Start menu. Four types of folders are supported:
Application Folder (Administrator Created): An application folder is created as an NDS® object. A single Application Folder object can consist of one folder or multiple folders (a multi-level folder structure). After you create an Application Folder object, you can add any number of Application objects to the folder (or folders). Application Folder objects are the recommended folder type if you want to maintain consistent folders from user to user.
Custom Folder (Administrator Created): A custom folder is created specifically for a single Application object in NDS. No other Application objects can be included in the folder. Custom folders support folders within folders, which means that you can create a custom folder structure. For example, although you could not have Calculator and Notepad in the same custom folder, you could create two subfolders within the same custom folder and place the two programs in the two subfolders (in other words, WINAPPS\CALCULATOR\CALC.EXE and WINAPPS\ NOTEPAD\NOTEPAD.EXE).
Personal Folder (User Created): A personal folder is created in Application Launcher/Explorer by individual users. Users can move Application objects from other folders into the personal folder. By default, the ability to create personal folders in disabled. For information about enabling this feature, see Configuring Application Launcher/Explorer .
System Folder (System Created): A system folder is automatically created by Application Launcher/Explorer to store an Application object if the object has not been added to an application folder or a custom folder.
If the Application object is associated with a user, the Application object's system folder is given the name specified in the User object's Full Name field (for example, John Smith). If the Application object is associated with another NDS object (Group, Workstation, container, and so forth), the system folder is given the name specified in the object's Description field (for example, System Test Group). If nothing is specified in the Full Name or Description field, the system folder is given the object's fully distinguished name. For example, an Application object associated with a user through his or her User object would be placed in a system folder that has the user's fully distinguished name, but an Application object associated with a user through a group would be placed in a folder that has the group's fully distinguished name.
The following sections provide instructions about creating an Application Folder object and adding Application objects to application folders or custom folders: