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Collections and Sub Collections - 9/26/2008 11:59:40 AM

jbradford933

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I have a couple collections named Office, Lotus, Symantec. Each collection installs the respective software for the client.
I created a new collection named SoftwareLoad. I right clicked on this collection and linked the above collections(Office,Lotus, Symantec) to this new collection. So SoftwareLoad now appears to be a parent collection of the other three.

I'd like to add a machine to the SoftwareLoad collection and then have this machine recieve all the advertisements from the Office,Lotus and Symantec collections.

However when I do this the advertisements do not show up in the SoftwareLoad collection advertisment tab. Is there a way to link an existing collection to a new parent and have their advertisements inherited?

< Message edited by jbradford933 -- 9/26/2008 5:55:55 PM >

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RE: Collections and Sub Collections - 9/28/2008 1:15:12 PM

rbennett806

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I'd first sugegst that you ask yourself what it is you're tyring to accomplish, and then ask yourself if this is the right way to go about it. Or maybe share your thinking with the forum and maybe someone can suggest a more streamlined method.

Secondly, if your Symantec, Lotus, Office collections use a dynamic membership query, the computer should be automatically added and recieve the advertisement(s) targeted to each collection. So why do you need a third collection to do the task of an existing collection?

Thirdly, why not just create a collection (call it whatever you want - SoftwareLoad?) and then create three new advertisements, one for Lotus, one for Symantec, one for Office and target them all at this new collection?

Just my thoughts...

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RE: Collections and Sub Collections - 9/29/2008 10:38:57 AM

jnelson993