Ways to Add Applications to Application Manager

There are two ways to add an application to Application Manager:

• Registering the application

• Adding an application icon without registering the application

Registering the Application

Application registration provides full application integration.

A registered application:

• Has its own application group.

• Has its desktop configuration files gathered under a single location. This group of desktop configuration files is called the registration package.

• May have a registered help volume.

There are two ways an application can become registered:

• When you install a desktop-smart application, registration occurs automatically. See To Add a Desktop-Smart Application to Application Manager.

• An existing application can be registered by creating a registration package. See To Register an Existing or Non-Desktop Smart Application.

The use of a registration package makes the application easier to administer on the desktop. The registration package is created somewhere in the file system other than the locations used for desktop configuration files.

Adding the Application without Using a Registration Package

This is the preferred way to add application when you want Application Manager to contain only an icon to start the application.

An application added without using a registration package:

• May have its own application group, but usually has its icon placed in an existing application group.

• Has its desktop configuration files placed directly in locations along the desktop's search paths.

See To Add an Application Icon to an Existing Application Group.