Managing Folders

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Creating and assigning folders allows you to restrict users and groups to a certain set of products and licenses available on AppWave.

By default, AppWave is configured with the following folders:

• All Apps: Provides access to specified applications to all AppWave Browser users (All Users). The All Apps folder can be edited to provide access to only specific applications, but this folder cannot be deleted. Attributes of the folder such as users, group, properties, applications and notes can be changed.
• All-Access: Provides access to all Embarcadero applications to all AppWave Browser users (All Users). The properties of this folder are fully editable and it can be deleted.
• Popular, Productivity, Utility, Database Tools, IDEs, Developer Tools... are also available at install and are subsets of the All Apps folder. The properties of these folders are fully editable and they can be deleted.
• Licensed Apps: 3rd Party Apps broadcast to AppWave or imported manually to AppWave are automatically added to this folder. The level of AppWave Edition license you have purchased determines how many 3rd Apps this folder and your AppWave catalog can contain. For more information see: AppWave Edition Licenses.

Create Folders

Follow these steps to create folders:

1. From the MANAGE FOLDERS menu, click App Folders.
2. At the bottom of the App Folders pane, click Create Folder. The Create Folder pane appears.
3. Fill in the required fields, those indicated with an asterisk (*).
   1. Folder name field: enter a folder name of up to 20 characters.
   2. Description field (optional) : enter a description of the folder of up to 1024 characters.
   3. Notes field (optional): enter additional information about the folder you want to retain. You can enter up to 1024 characters.
4. Click Create Folder and the folder summary page appears.

Any system warnings are posted to the Warnings area for your information. You can check for warnings by selecting MANAGE FOLDERS > App Folders and then editing the folder you want to verify.

Note: Folders created appear in the MANAGE FOLDERS menu, in alphabetical order.

Create Folders Options

Properties:

• Read Only : to create a folder that can be used to create other template, select Read Only so that it cannot be inadvertently changed after creation. You can deselect Read Only at a later time if you want to change the folder. A read-only folder cannot be changed until Read Only is deselected in the Edit Folder dialog. When you deselect Read Only the system prompts you to confirm the action.
• Push all applications to the specified users and groups: to make the applications in this folder automatically available to the selected users and groups, select Push all applications to the specified users and groups. When the user starts AppWave Browser the Apps will be downloaded to the users local disk.

Copy from existing folder : To create a folder that is based on another folder, click Copy from existing folder and then choose the parent folder from the Folders dialog that appears. The Users and Groups and Applications in the new folder will be synchronized with those of the existing folder.

Assign Groups and Users to Folders

Users and Groups area.

To assign users and/or groups to a folder:

1. Once you are in the Create Folder pane go to the Users and Groups area.
2. Below and to the right click Add Users & Groups (see arrow in image above) . The Users and Groups window appears.
3. The users and groups selected display in the Users and Groups area. Groups and users are identified with recognizable icons and .
4. You can remove all users and groups from the folder by clicking Remove All below and to the right of the Users and Groups area. You can remove an individual user or group from the folder by hovering over its name and clicking the x that appears next to the user or group name.

Tip: If you have a long list of users and groups, you can browse through the pages of names or you can use the Search for and Filter options to reduce the names that appear. You can click the Search for list and choose to display All users and groups, only Users or only Groups. You can enter one or more letters in the Filter text box and then click Filter. To revert to viewing all the users and groups, enter * in the Filter field and click Filter.

Assign Applications to Folders

Applications area (required).

1. Once you are in the Create Folder pane go to the Applications area.
2. To the right of the Applications area, click Add Apps. The Applications window appears.
3. Select the applications to add to this folder and then click Select.

Use Existing Folders to Create a New Folder

1. From the MANAGE FOLDERS menu, choose App Folders.
2. Click Create Folder. The Create Folder pane appears.
3. Click Copy from existing folder and then from the Folders window, choose a folder and then click Select.
4. The Users and Groups and the Applications areas of the new folder are populated with all the users and groups, and all the applications of the folder selected.
5. Complete defining the folder as described in Create Folders.

   Note: Folders created appear in the MANAGE FOLDERS menu, in alphabetical order.

Edit Folders

1. From the MANAGE FOLDERS menu, choose App Folders. The App Folders pane appears.
2. Next to the folder you want to change, click the edit icon

The Edit Folder page appears where you add the relevant apps to the folder and specify the users and groups that can make the changes desired and then click Save Folder to effect the changes.

Delete Folders

1. From the MANAGE FOLDERS menu, choose App Folders. The App Folders pane appears.
2. Select one or more folders and click Delete Selected Folders.

See Also

• Managing Users
• Managing groups