Wise Installation Studio/Express Getting Started Guide
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Basic Tutorial: Creating a Windows Installer Installation
The General Information page appears, where you set the information that appears
when the end user right-clicks the installation file in Windows Explorer and selects
Properties.
5. Enter this information on the General Information page:
Title
Enter: QuickFacts
Author
Enter your name.
6. Under the Project Definition page group on the left, click Add/Remove Programs.
The Add/Remove Programs page appears, where you enter information to support
the capabilities of the Add/Remove Programs control panel.
7. Enter this information on the Add/Remove Programs page:
Display in Add/Remove Programs list
Make sure this is marked.
Product Updates URL
Enter: No support provided.
8. Save the installation.
Now that you’ve entered basic information about the installation, you can define the
features that provide structure to the installation.
Create and Organize Features
After entering product details and general information for a new installation, you should
define its structure.
To create the structure of an installation, you define:
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What features make up the application.
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How those features are presented to the end user during installation.
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What conditions must be true for portions of features to be installed.
Determine features and conditions before configuring other aspects of the installation,
because all other system changes (adding files, adding registry entries, and so on) that
you define later must be associated with a feature. Many pages in Installation Expert
have a Current Feature drop-down list that lets you set options on a per-feature and
per-condition basis.
The QuickFacts installation consists of four features. The feature named Core, which is
always installed, contains the QuickFacts program and online help. The other features,
Birds, Cats, and Dogs, are optional and contain fact files about those animals. Each will
appear as an optional feature during the QuickFacts installation.
To create and organize features
1. Under the Project Definition page group on the left, click Features.
The Features page appears.
A feature named Complete already exists, because every installation must contain
at least one feature.
2. Double-click the Complete feature or select it and click the Details button.
