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[Igor]

Hi, for al my customers i use the nice future of Res Powerfuse --> Instant Mail and Outlook Signature to standardize the signature company wide.

Now some of my customers would want to put an extra line in the Outlook Signature , for instance " Workdays Mon, Thu, Fri". this will be for specified users.

Is there a way i could accomplice this, i was thinking of custom resources bit still i dont have a solution

Thnks in advance

[Yuri]

I guess you could work something out with custom properties in AD, which can be used in PowerFuse but this could be quite troublesome and in no way really dynamic. With that I mean that you'd have to perform some form of administration on each and every single leaf object in AD (users).

But. How about this.. Make inventory of all possible combinations of working days. Make application objects that set specific environment variables based on these combinations. (like: workdays=available on monday, wednesday and friday) The problem is how to get users to set these variables, because this is still prone to human error. Perhaps setting it once, then have those variables exported to HKCU and then saved to UPR? Then have a task ex- and importing those settings every login/logoff?

This would be almost an exact copy of how flex profiles work :-)

[Alex]

I think there's not really a very easy way to do this, but I think I'd use Workspace Containers for this.

Get a list of which people work parttime and on which days, then create a Workspace Container for each possible combination. (For example, a Workspace Container "Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays", a Workspace Container "Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays", etc) Give each parttime worker the correct Workspace Container.

Then you can set up a global environment variable that gets the correct text as value depending on the user's Workspace Container.

[Yuri]

What if the users changes it's workschedule? You'd have to perform an administrative task for each user that decides to change the days they're on the job. Giving the user the ability to provision it's own variables based on application objects (user option - resulting in an environment variable) would be the path of least resistence. Also, workspace containers implies using specific servers/agents combined with access control rules..

I think there's not really a very easy way to do this, but I think I'd use Workspace Containers for this.

Get a list of which people work parttime and on which days, then create a Workspace Container for each possible combination. (For example, a Workspace Container "Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays", a Workspace Container "Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays", etc) Give each parttime worker the correct Workspace Container.

Then you can set up a global environment variable that gets the correct text as value depending on the user's Workspace Container.

[Alex]

Hi,

Also, workspace containers implies using specific servers/agents combined with access control rules..

For the Workspace Containers you'd set the option "Include all computers". The Access Control on each Workspace Container would define the people to whom that specific combination of days applied. (Thought: maybe use groups for this??)

But I see your point about the administrative burden. Maybe it depends on how flexible the company is about people's contracts - where I work you can change your working days as a parttimer, but you can't go about changing them all the time...

I don't understand how the user would be able to choose the correct days in an application object - I don't have much experience in that field of expertise. How would you set that up? I'd be interested to know - always looking for new stuff