How To Guide - Advanced

BlueZone Web-to-Host

How to Control Where Your End User's Configuration Files Are Saved

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When Using Standard Deployment Mode

When you are using Standard Web-to-Host Client Mode, you have two choices:

  1. Default - (checkbox checked) Install the BlueZone Working Files in the End User's Windows Personal Folder and the BlueZone Program Files in the BlueZone Temp Directory.

  2. Optional - (checkbox un-checked) Install ALL BlueZone files in a folder created in the End User's BlueZone Temp Directory.

When Using Embedded Client Mode

Embedded Web-to-Host Client Mode works exactly the same way as the Standard Web-to-Host Client Mode described above.

When Using Served Desktop Client Mode

When you are using Served Desktop Client mode, you can control the exact location where BlueZone Web-to-Host installs the BlueZone Program Files and BlueZone Working Files.

You also can choose whether or not to use the End User's Windows Personal Folder to store BlueZone's Working Files.

Configuration Method: Web-to-Host Wizard

Feature Scope: Launch Folder Level Feature

This procedure covers:

Standard Deployment Mode

By default, BlueZone will use the End Users Personal Folder as the Working Directory.  Personal Folder is the same as the My Documents folder.  If you don't want to use the Personal Folder, un-check the Use Personal Folder as Working Directory checkbox.

Procedure

  1. Launch the Web-to-Host Wizard.

  2. Navigate to the desired Site and Launch Folder.

  3. Click the Next button two times to bring up the Advanced Settings page.

  4. Click the Web-to-Host button.  This will bring up the Advanced Settings : Web-to-Host page.

  5. Click the Options tab.

  6. Make sure that the Use Personal Folder as Working Directory checkbox is checked as shown here:

  1. Click the OK button.  This will bring you back to the Advanced Settings page.

  2. Test your changes by clicking the Next button which will bring up the Test Launch Folders page.

Embedded Client Mode

By default, BlueZone will use the End Users Personal Folder as the Working Directory.  Personal Folder is the same as the My Documents folder.  If you don't want to use the Personal Folder, un-check the Use Personal Folder as Working Directory checkbox.

Procedure

  1. Launch the Web-to-Host Wizard.

  2. Navigate to the desired Site and Launch Folder.

  3. Click the Next button two times to bring up the Advanced Settings page.

  4. Click the Web-to-Host button.  This will bring up the Advanced Settings : Web-to-Host page.

  5. Click the Options tab.

  6. Make sure that the Use Personal Folder as Working Directory checkbox is checked as shown here:

  1. Click the OK button.  This will bring you back to the Advanced Settings page.

  2. Test your changes by clicking the Next button which will bring up the Test Launch Folders page.

Served Desktop Mode

When you are using the Served Desktop mode of deployment, you do have the ability to control where your End Users Working Directory files are stored.  However, unlike in the above examples, you do not use the Wizard to configure these settings.  Instead, configuration changes require the editing of the default.ini file.

Create the BlueZone Working Directory in the BlueZone Installation Directory

  1. On the web server, navigate to the desired Site that you wish to change.

For example:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\MySite

 

  1. Locate and display the contents of the \template folder.

  2. Locate the default.ini file and edit it with Notepad.

  3. Locate the UsePersonalFolderAsWorkingDir=Yes entry [BlueZone] section.

  4. Changing from Yes to No.

Any new Launch Pages that you create will use the new default.ini settings that you just modified.  If you already have existing Launch Pages that you wish to change, you must go into each Launch Page folder and edit the default.ini file located there.

You also have the option of using the All Users Common Folder as the Working Directory.  To make this change,

Create the BlueZone Working Directory in the All Users Common Folder

  1. On the web server, navigate to the desired Site that you wish to change.

For example:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\MySite

 

  1. Locate and display the contents of the \template folder.

  2. Locate the default.ini file and edit it with Notepad.

  3. Locate the UsePersonalFolderAsWorkingDir=Yes entry [BlueZone] section.

  4. Change the Yes to No.

  5. Locate the UseAllUsersCommonFolderAsWorkingDir=No entry [BlueZone] section.

  6. Change the No to Yes.

Any new Launch Pages that you create will use the new default.ini settings that you just modified.  If you already have existing Launch Pages that you wish to change, you must go into each Launch Page folder and edit the default.ini file located there.