Windows Installer Editor Reference
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Introduction
To create a page view
1. From the Page Views drop-down list in Installation Expert, select <New View...>.
The Enter Name dialog box appears.
2. Enter a name for the page view.
To create an access key for the name, type & (ampersand) before a letter in the
name. The page view access keys appear only in the page group’s right-click menu,
which you access from the context menu key (the key next to the right Ctrl key).
3. Click OK.
On the Customized Page Views dialog box, the new page view is selected in Page
View Name, but it has no page groups or page names.
4. To copy the page groups and pages of an existing page view:
a. Click Copy View. The Copy View dialog box appears.
b. Select the page view to copy and click OK.
The Merge Module and Universal Transform page views do not appear on the list
because they cannot be copied.
You can now customize the page view by changing its page groups and pages.
To customize a page view
1. From the Page Views drop-down list in Installation Expert, select <Customize
Page Views...>.
The Customize Page Views dialog box appears.
2. Select the page view from Page View Name, and do any of the following:
To add a new page group, click the Page Groups Add button and enter a name.
To rename a page group, select the page group and click Rename.
To add a page to a page group, select the page group and click the Add button
to the right of Page Names. On the Select Pages to Add dialog box, select one
or more pages and click OK.
To delete a page group or a page name, select it and click its Delete button.
3. Click OK on the Customize Page Views dialog box.
To delete a page view, select it from Page View Name and click the top Delete button.
See also:
Using Installation Expert
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Using the Current Feature Drop-Down List
The Current Feature drop-down list appears on pages in the Feature Details page
group. When it appears, you can set options on a per-feature or per-condition basis. You
add features and conditions on the Features page, then select a feature from Current
Feature before setting options on other pages.
