There are four types of folders used to organize applications:
Application folder (administrator created): An application folder is created as a Novell eDirectory™ object. A single Application Folder object can consist of one folder or multiple folders (a multi-level folder structure). After you create an Application Folder object, you can add any number of Application objects to the folder (or folders). Application Folder objects are the recommended folder type if you want to maintain consistent folders from user to user. For information about creating Application Folder objects, see Section 25.2, Creating and Deleting Application Folders. For information about adding applications to an application folder, see Section 25.3, Adding Applications to Application Folders.
Custom folder (administrator created): A custom folder is created specifically for a single Application object in eDirectory. No other Application objects can be included in the folder. Custom folders support folders within folders, which means that you can create a custom folder structure. For example, although you could not have Calculator and Notepad in the same custom folder, you could create two subfolders within the same custom folder and place the two programs in the two subfolders (in other words, winapps\calculator\calc.exe and winapps\notepad\notepad.exe). For information about creating custom folders for an application, see Section 25.4, Adding Applications to Custom Folders.
Personal folder (user created): A personal folder is created in Application Launcher by individual users. Users can move Application objects from other folders into the personal folder. By default, the ability to create personal folders is disabled. For information about enabling this feature, see Novell Application Launcher: Configuring Settings.
System folder (system created): A system folder is automatically created by Application Launcher to store an Application object if the object has not been added to an application folder or a custom folder.
If the Application object is associated with a user, the Application object's system folder is given the name specified in the User object's Full Name field (for example, John Smith). If the Application object is associated with another eDirectory object (Group, Workstation, container, and so forth), the system folder is given the name specified in the object's Description field (for example, System Test Group). If nothing is specified in the Full Name or Description field, the system folder is given the object's fully distinguished name. For example, an Application object associated with a user through his or her User object would be placed in a system folder that has the user's fully distinguished name, but an Application object associated with a user through a group would be placed in a folder that has the group's fully distinguished name.