[Casper] Software Categories

[Ernst, Craig S.]

I can't miss the party on categories. Here are mine.

Adobe - (adobe)Obvious
Classic - (classic) Old OS9 stuff, pretty much not used anymore
Common Applications - (ca) Applications that many departments use that don't have a category that suits them, like Google Earth, etc.
Departmental - (dep) Applications specific to a deprtment
Graphics & Web Design - (design) Obvious
Hardware - (hw) for devices like scanners, etc.
Internet - (internet) Browsers, or other applications that utilize the Internet like Messenger, FTP, VPN
Languages - (lang) Language packs for the OS
Multimedia - (mm) Video Editing, Audio Editing, Disc Authoring, Players
Office - (office) Obvious
OS - (os) Obvious
Printers - (print) Printer driver and software packages
Scripts - Never broke these out into other groups from when it was originally setup
Suites - (suite) iLife, iWork
System Configuration - (sys) Packages that modify system preferences or behaviour
User Environment - (ue) Packages that modify user preferences or behaviour
Utilities - (util) Remote Desktop, KeyServer, refit, Stuffit Expander, All those random applications

We also start the name of our packages with the prefix in brackets, at least for those that tolerate being renamed. Some MPKGs don't like that very much. =)

Examples: os-X.5.7(a), office-2008_12.1.9

Craig E

On 6/23/09 8:20 AM, "Steven Diver" <sdiver at d125.org> wrote:

I am looking for a cleaner (and better) way of categorizing/organizing our software within Casper Admin, so I am curious what everyone is using for their software Categories? Especially as I would like to make better use of Self Service, I'd like for it to be as user friendly as possible for end users.

For reference, here are our categories that we have on our server...

Adobe
Apple
Computer Programming
Educational
Email & Collaboration
FileMaker
Google
Graphics & Multimedia
JAMF Tools
Mathematics
Microsoft
Operating Systems
Printer Drivers
Printers
Reading Enrichment
Scanners
Science
Scripts
Unknown
User Environment Prefs
Utilities
Web Browsers
World Languages

Thanks,
Steve

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Steven Diver, Network Manager
Adlai E. Stevenson High School / www.d125.org <http://www.d125.org>
Email: sdiver at d125.org / Phone: 847.415.4304

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