AFP applications allow users or print room operators to distribute print jobs among a group of printers and to designate backup printers when one fails.

Excel 3.0 adds a "solver" feature that allows users to designate a desired result, or constraint, and then ask the computer to manipulate variables to achieve the optimum solution.

The user would then designate a time for the alarm to ring under ordinary circumstances, followed by a second choice for days when certain weather or traffic conditions exist.

The Archives even suggests creating a tag system for agencies' computer messages where users could designate their message as one that should be saved when it is created.

If the user does not designate any buddies, then all the users of the system become automatically his buddies to share files.

With Backsolver, the user can designate the result he or she wants, and the spreadsheet will find the right variables within a range set by the user.

Google needs to let users designate "quiet" circles, which don't send notifications out.

In December 2009, Facebook changed its website so certain information that users may have designated as private - such as their Friends List - was made public.

The users of the park have designated areas of activity, which is respected by one and all within the park.

Most of the radio-frequency systems require users to designate one computer, usually the one with the fastest connection to the Internet, to act as the network's hub.