Create an Entitlement for an App Volumes Application Using Horizon Cloud

To deliver an App Volumes application package to an end user, you must entitle an application to a user or group of users.

Here are some considerations when creating entitlements for an application:

• An application can be entitled to a single or multiple users or user groups.

• An entitlement can be created based on a specific package version or a CURRENT marker which is not yet set on any package. If you choose the CURRENT marker, the application is entitled to the user or user group. Later when a package for this application is created and marked CURRENT, the user or user group receives this package.

• For a marker-based entitlement, the user or user group always receives the package with the CURRENT version. If the administrator sets the CURRENT marker to another package, the user or user group, in the subsequent login, receives the new package which has the CURRENT marker.

• An application can be entitled to a user or user group even if the application has no package.

  • For the application package to get delivered to the user or user group, the package status must be Ready.

  • Multiple applications can also be assigned to a user or a user group at the same time.

• To deliver applications in real time and not at user login, App Volumes has command-line delivery options. To use these options, you must enable the Do not deliver at login setting.
  For more information about the command-line delivery option, see Use Command-line to Deliver App Volumes Applications.

• An App Link can be used to launch an App Volumes application. This App Link can be shared with end users as a clickable URI hyperlink. An end user can invoke the App Link from a web browser or click the hyperlink which contains the URI on a computer where App Volumes agent is installed. When the App Link is invoked, the application is launched.

Prerequisites

You must first create a floating VDI desktop assignment. Due to the processing needs of Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, this assignment must have a recommended desktop model that provides at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM.

Procedure

1. In the Horizon Universal Console, navigate to App Volumes > Applications.

2. Select the application to which you want to entitle a user or a user group.

3. Click Entitlements > ENTITLE.

4. On the Entitle App Volumes page, perform the following steps:

   1. Select the desired package.

   2. Optional: To prevent delivering the package at user login, enable the Do not deliver at login setting.

      Note: When this setting is enabled, the command-line delivery option is used and the application is not available at login regardless of the package delivery mode (Classic, On-demand) selected. In on-demand package delivery mode, application shortcuts are delivered at login but the applications are delivered only when the shortcut is launched. Whereas in command-line delivery, the application shortcuts are also not delivered at login. For more information about the command-line delivery option, see Use Command-line to Deliver App Volumes Applications.

      In the page where application entitlements are listed (click an application and navigate to the Entitlements tab), such a package is marked with an information icon in the Package column. If you hover over this icon, you see that the package is not delivered to the user at login. Icons and shortcuts are not available on the computer.

   3. Select the User types.

   4. Depending on the user type selected in the previous step, add the users or user groups.

5. Click Save.

   All entitlements for an application are displayed in the Entitlements tab.

   1. Navigate to App Volumes > Applications.

   2. Click an application.

   3. In the application details page, click the Entitlements tab.

      However in Horizon Cloud currently, the application entitlements page displays only the user or user groups associated with the application packages for that specific application only.

      Note: In the Horizon Cloud first-gen product, each assignment can have multiple applications which can be assigned to multiple users or user groups. Hence, the Assignment page displays all the applications and their corresponding users or user groups.

      However in Horizon Cloud currently, the application entitlements page displays only the user or user groups associated with the application packages for that specific application only.

      If a package with CURRENT marker is chosen for a specific user or user group, then the Marker column on this page displays CURRENT for that user or user group entitlement.

What to do next

End users can use an App Link URI to launch an App Volumes application. For more information about App Links, see Use an App Link to Launch an App Volumes Application.