Icon

This property page determines the Application object's icon that Novell^® Application Launcher^TM displays on a workstation. You can give the application icon a title, select the graphic to use for the icon, and give the icon a display order and force run priority. You can determine whether or not Application Launcher should continue to display the Application object on the workstation when the user has disconnected from Novell eDirectory^TM.

Application Icon Title
Enter the text you want to appear as the title for the Application object's icon wherever the icon is displayed. If necessary, you can use the Description page (Identification tab) for longer descriptions of the application.

The icon title must conform to standard Windows folder and file name conventions. If you use the following invalid Windows folder and file name characters, they will be replaced (on the user's desktop) with an underscore (_):

\ / : * ? " < > |

Application Icon
Select the icon you want to appear wherever the Application object's icon is displayed. If you do not specify an icon, a default Application object icon is used.

When selecting (or creating) icons to be used, if you use the Application Browser view you might want to avoid high resolution icons (256 color or higher). Microsoft* Internet Explorer, which is used to display the Application Browser view, distorts the colors in high resolution icons.

Disconnectable
Select this option to mark the application as being able to be run on a workstation that is disconnected from eDirectory.

IMPORTANT: The application must be distributed to the workstation before the user can run it in disconnected mode, or the application must be cached on the workstation. You can force the application to be distributed on the workstation by selecting the Force Run characteristic (Associations page). You can force the application to be cached to the workstation by selecting the Force Cache characteristic (Associations page).

Wait on Force Run
This option applies only if the application and at least one other application are using the Force Run option (Associations page).

Select this option to force the application to wait until the preceding application terminates. The application order is defined in the Determine Force Run Order field. Reboots are queued until the final application has terminated.

Determine Force Run Order
This option dictates the order in which applications set as Force Run will be started. Select this option to enable it, and then use the Order list to select the application's position in the Force Run order.

Order
You control the order in which the application is started by entering a numeric value in the Order box. A value of zero gives the application the highest priority. The maximum value is 9999999. For example, if you want this application to start after two other applications that have been given the order of 0 and 1, you would enter 2 in the Order box.

Application Launcher runs the application without waiting for the previously started application to terminate, unless the Wait on Force Run option is enabled.

Show Progress
This option displays a progress bar to users anytime an application is distributed to or removed from their workstations. Turn off this option if you are distributing only a small change to an application, such as a registry modification. Turn on this option if you are distributing or removing a large application and want to give the user an idea of how long the process will take.

With this option turned off, if the workstation must be rebooted to complete the installation process and the Prompt for Reboot setting is enabled (Distribution Options tab > Options page), the user is not prompted and the workstation automatically reboots. The same is true if the workstation must be rebooted to complete the uninstall process and the Prompt User Before Uninstall setting is enabled (Common tab > Uninstall page).

User Interface Level
This option appears only if the Application object uses a Microsoft* Windows* Installer (.msi) package. During distribution of an MSI Application object, Application Launcher launches Windows Installer to install the application. As a result, rather than showing the standard Application Launcher installation progress bar, Windows Installer uses the installation user interface established for the .msi package. You can use the following settings to determine the amount of user interface the Windows Installer will display during installation

Default: Displays an appropriate user interface level (as chosen by Windows Installer).

Silent: Displays no user interface.

Progress: Displays simple progress information, error messages, and prompts.

Reduced: Displays the full user interface with Wizard dialog boxes suppressed.

Full: Displays the full user interface (Wizard dialog boxes, progress information, error messages and prompts, and so forth).

Application Launcher passes the selected setting to Windows Installer as a startup parameter. For more information about these settings, see the Microsoft Windows Installer documentation.

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