Icons/Shortcuts

This property page determines the icons and shortcuts that Novell^® Application Launcher^TM creates when distributing the application to the workstation. You can add the application's icon as an item in a program group or as a shortcut on the workstation's desktop or in a folder. You can also delete existing icons, shortcuts, and program groups.

The icons and shortcuts you add are in addition to the Application object's icon. Although the Application object's icon can cause various actions to occur, including installing the application or running it, the icons and shortcuts defined on this page link directly to the application's executable file and simply launch the application.

You can use icons and shortcuts in combination with other options to create the user environment you want. For example, you could define the icons and shortcuts you want created and configure the Application object to run one time (Run Options > Applications). When a user selected the Application object, Application Launcher would run the application one time, create the icons and shortcuts, perform any other tasks specified by the Application object's properties, and then remove the Application object's icon from the workstation. Thereafter, the user would need to select the icon or shortcut to launch the application.

IMPORTANT: If Application Launcher cannot create a shortcut, the application is not distributed. In this case, all application files and settings are removed. However, if other shortcuts were created before the shortcut that failed, those shortcuts are not removed.

Icons and Shortcuts
This list displays the icons and shortcuts that are created when the application is distributed to a workstation.

File
Click File > Find to search for icon and shortcut definitions that include certain information.

Click File > Import to import icons and shortcuts from another Application object.

Add
Click Add to add a new program group, program group item, or shortcut. Program groups and program group items are supported on Windows* 98 workstations but not on Windows NT*/2000/XP workstations. Shortcuts are supported on all Windows versions.

IMPORTANT: When defining the target path for a shortcut, if the application will be distributed to a Windows 2000/XP workstation you must use a UNC path rather than a mapped drive path. Long mapped drive paths are truncated on Windows 2000/XP, resulting in an invalid shortcut that does not work.

Modify
Select an icon or shortcut from the Icons and Shortcuts list, then click Modify to change the information associated with it.

Delete
Select an icon or shortcut from the Icons and Shortcuts list, then click Delete to delete it from the list.

Distribution Options For the Selected Item(s)
Use these options to configure the distribution options for the icons and shortcuts included in the list.

Track Distribution Per User
If you have implemented roaming user profiles, use this option to ensure that particular icons and shortcuts are distributed to each workstation a user logs in to.

In the Icons and Shortcuts list, select the desired icon or shortcut, then select Track Distribution Per User.

Distribute Always
By default, Application Launcher only creates the icons and shortcuts defined in the Icons and Shortcuts list at the following times:

• The first time the application is launched on a workstation.
• The first time the application is launched after the application's version number (Distribution Options tab > Options page) has been changed.

To force Application Launcher to create an icon or shortcut each time the application is launched, select the icon or shortcut in the Icons and Shortcuts list, then select Distribute Always.

If the user has a NAL cache directory on his or her local machine, Application Launcher uses the information stored in the NAL cache directory to create the icon or shortcut. If the user does not have a NAL cache directory (for example, the user is running Application Launcher through a terminal server client session) or if writing to the cache has been disabled for the user (User object > ZENworks tab > Launcher Configuration page> Enable Writing to Cache option), Application Launcher uses the information stored in Novell eDirectory^TM.

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