Organize Your Setup
Organize Your Setup |
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The first step in building anything is to lay a solid foundation. The base of your setup is formed by specifying application information through the General Information view and creating features in the Features view.
The General Information view is where you set global project properties such as the application name and support information. Most of the properties in this view are optional. Your setup will work properly if you accept the defaults or do not provide values for the optional properties. However, the following properties are required: Subject, Product Name, Publisher, Product Code, Upgrade Code, and Destination Folder.
Features are the building blocks of your setup. They represent a distinct piece of your application—such as program files, help files, or clip art—to your end users. Features contain components, which in turn contain files. You can create features and up to 15 levels of subfeatures in the Features view.
Setup Types offer different configurations of your applications to your customers. These configurations may be useful if you distribute large features that are not required in order for the application to run.
 | This view is available only in the full edition of InstallShield Express. |
The Upgrade Paths view is where you indicate upgrade information for your product if you have distributed at least one previous version of your product—with a different product code and version number than your current product version. In this view, you can provide the specific upgrade codes, versions, and languages for any previous versions of your product that you want the current version to update.
Features
Setup Types
Upgrade Paths