General Tab

AdminStudio 2023 | 25.0 | Application Manager | Options Dialog Box

Edition:Application Manager is included with AdminStudio Professional and Enterprise Editions.

On the General tab of the Options dialog box, you can configure the following options:

General Tab Properties

Property

Description

Confirm All Drag-Drop Operations

Select this option if you want Application Manager to prompt you for confirmation whenever you drag and drop items.

Display Broken MSI/MST Package Links

When selected, any broken package links will be indicated by an icon change in the Application Manager tree and with a message in the Home Deployment Type View, which allows you to attempt to locate the package.

Only Display View Nodes With Data

When this option is selected, packages containing views without data will not display those views. For example, if a package has no shortcuts, then the Shortcuts view is not displayed for that package.

Select Temporary Location

Packages are temporarily copied to this location to extract all of the data needed during import and testing. In other words, it is a “working directory” for AdminStudio. After package extraction, the files are deleted.

In some cases, certain locations on a machine might be locked down and AdminStudio would be unable to access them, which would cause package extraction to fail. In this field, specify a location that AdminStudio has access to.

Extended Attribute Description File

Specify the name and location of the extended attribute description file (.xml) which specifies the extended attributes available for each package in the Application Catalog.

AdminStudio includes a default XML file for extended attributes, which is stored in the AdminStudio shared location. You can also construct your own Package Extended Attribute Description File. Each new Application Catalog automatically points to this file, and displays the name and location of the file in this tab.

Tip:If you overwrite the default XML file with your extended attributes data, all subsequent Application Catalogs created include your attributes by default.

Integrate with Workflow Manager

Select this option to integrate extended attributes with Workflow Manager. When this option is selected, you can associate extended attribute data for packages in Application Manager with workflow requests in Workflow Manager. This is accomplished by right-clicking on the package name in the Application Manager tree and selecting Associate with Workflow Manager Workflow Request from the shortcut menu.