Thank you for your questions.

The answer to your questions depends upon the means by which you distribute the applets to your users. You basically have three choices:

1. Use eDirectory

eDirectory is often the easiest way to distribute applets to end-users. Using eDirectory, you don’t need to worry about where to copy applets to, etc. Formativ takes care of physically delivering Applets to the correct location. eDirectory also makes it easy to copy different sets of applets to different users. You can find more information about using Formativ with eDirectory by following this link.

2. Copy the Applets to each PC

You may also copy your applets to each workstation. The actual location varies based on how you want to set things up. By default, Formativ looks in two directories when loading applets. The first is based on the current users ‘My Documents’ location. As you mention, this is ‘C:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMEMy DocumentsAdvansysFormativApplets’. The ‘C:Documents and Settings’ part of this filename is determined by Windows. The second location is ‘C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataAdvansysFormativ1.0Applets’ (Runtime will load applets from this location. Again, the The ‘C:Documents and Settings’ part of this filename is determined by Windows.

You can change the location of the local applets directory via the Formativ Windows Control Panel applet, or by writing directly to the Windows Registry. You would need to edit the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAdvansys Corporationformativ1.0Settings
Local Scripts=

Obviously, this is a HKEY_CURRENT_USER that will only apply to the current user. To automatically propogate this setting to all users of a machine, you need to install Formativ with the ‘install for all users’ option AND use a config.ini setttings file.

This is documented in the Distribution Kit help – download it from here

3. Make the Applets available in a shared location

Copy your applets to a shared location on the network, then use the same technique as mentioned in option 2 above to point to this location.

I hope this information helps. Please let me know if you require any further assistance.

Advansys Support

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1. If you manually change the applet file locations through control panel the Runtime will only pick up encoded/flexalock applets. Is it designed only to pick these types up?

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Yes – Runtime only ‘sees’ Runtime and Encoded applets. You need to use a copy of Developer or Admin to Flexalock the applets you want to use with Runtime.

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2. Using the config.ini file from ZENWorks, the run routine /s /i-config.ini, with the file in the same directory as the install program file the install doesn’t populates the paths correctly in the control panel applet;

The paths are (c: used for example);
Local Macros=c:localmacros
Shared Macros=c:sharedmacros
User Data=c:userdata
Library Backup=c:lib
System Path=C:Program FilesAdvansysFormativSystem
User Cache Path=c:usercachepath
Local Images Path=c:Program FilesAdvansysapplets
Local Help Path=c:Program FilesAdvansysapplets
Local Config Path=c:Program FilesAdvansysapplets

The above gives the following;
Location for personal applets – C:docs and settingsadministratormy docsadvansysformativapplets

Location for applet data – c:userdata

greyed out lib path – c:lib

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When checking the control panel applet settings, were you logged in as the same Windows users as you you were when the setup program was executed? As most path settings are user based, they are written into the HKEY_CURRENT_USER area of the registry. Logging in as a different user will cause Formativ to use system determined paths at runtime.

If you still encounter problems, perhaps you could email the the details of the paths you want setup and we’ll create a config.ini file and batch file that we can test here, and send you to assist in your rollout. If interested, please send details to support@advansyscorp.com.

Regards,

Advansys Support