Site List

This property page lets you link the Application object to other Application objects. By linking identical Application objects whose source files are located on servers at different sites, you can distribute the application from the server that is closest to the user.

For example, you have two different sites, Site1 and Site2. Employees at both sites use the same spreadsheet program. Site1 has an Application object (App1) that distributes the spreadsheet program from a Site1 server, and Site2 has its own Application object (App2) to distribute the program from a Site2 server. If you link App1 to App2, any Site1 employee who travels to Site2 and launches App1 will have App2 installed from the Site2 server. Likewise, any Site2 employee who travels to Site1 and launches App2 will have App1 installed from the Site1 server.

The site list is a distribution mechanism that applies only to undistributed, non-cached applications. If an application is already distributed or cached on a user's workstation, that application is used regardless of the site list.

IMPORTANT: When a user logs in to Novell eDirectory^TM through the ZENworks^® Middle Tier Server rather than the Novell Client^TM, site lists work differently than explained above. Rather than the Novell Client being used to determine the user's location, the Middle Tier Server determines the location. This means that the application closest to the Middle Tier Server is used, which is not necessarily the application closest to the user. In the above example, the Site 1 user would continue to have applications distributed from the Site 1 server rather than from a Site 2 server.

You can link to only one other Application object. However, when you do so, the first Application object is automatically linked to any other Application objects that the second Application object is linked to. For example, you have three identical Application objects (App1, App2, and App3) at three different sites. You link App1 to App2, which creates the following site lists for each of the Application objects:

App1 List	App2 List	App3 List
App2	App1	(none)

Because you can link an Application object to only one other Application object, you now need to link App3 to either App1 or App2. Doing so creates the following site list for each of the Application objects:

App1 List	App2 List	App3 List
App2	App1	App1
App3	App3	App2

If you want to ensure that the application is distributed to a user's workstation only one time, regardless of the number of sites the user travels to, you need to make sure that each Application object in the site list has the same GUID (global unique identifier). To do so, use the GUID Manager (Distribution Options tab > Options page > GUID field > Modify button).

Link
Click Link, browse for and select the Application object you want to link to, then click OK to add it to the Application Site List. The list also includes any other Application objects that the selected Application object is linked to.

Unlink
Click Unlink to remove the Application object's link to the Application objects displayed in the Application Site List.

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