Windows Installer Editor Reference
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Organizing Your Installation Into Releases
Example: Creating an Evaluation Release
This example describes how you could define an evaluation release for an application. In
this example:
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The release is named Sample Evaluation.
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The application’s summary dialog box indicates that this is an evaluation release.
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Potential customers can use the evaluation version indefinitely, but they can’t save
any files.
Assumptions
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On the Features page, you have added a SaveAs feature with the appropriate
resources for the default release.
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The SaveAs feature includes resources that let end users save files.
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On the Releases page, you have created a release named Evaluation.
To create a sample evaluation release
1. Select Installation Expert > Release Settings page.
2. From Current Release, select Evaluation.
3. Click the Properties icon.
4. Click Add at the right of the Release Settings page. The Property Settings Override
dialog box appears.
5. From Name, select ProductName.
6. In Value, enter Sample Evaluation.
7. Click OK.
8. Click the Summary icon.
9. Click Add at the right of the Release Settings page. The Summary Settings Override
dialog box appears.
10. From Name, select Comments.
11. In Value, enter:
This is an evaluation version; it does not allow you to save files.
12. Click OK.
13. If necessary, expand the Features icon in the list box.
14. Clear the SaveAs feature’s check box.
