{"id":947,"date":"2017-12-02T06:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T06:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=947"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T09:25:10","slug":"advanced-designer-in-installanywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/advanced-designer-in-installanywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Designer in InstallAnywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>msiexpert created the topic: Advanced Designer in InstallAnywhere<\/strong><br \/>\nAdvanced Designer<br \/>\nWhile the Project Wizard leads developers through a few simple steps to create an<br \/>\ninstaller, the Advanced Designer gives greater precision, enabling developers to access<br \/>\nall the powerful features of InstallAnywhere. With the Advanced Designer developers<br \/>\ncan assign files and actions to feature sets, allowing the user to define which files are<br \/>\ninstalled; rules can be added which selectively install different files or different<br \/>\ninstallation locations dependent on the target platform. With the Advanced Designer<br \/>\ndevelopers have precise control over all the design options of an installation project.<br \/>\nThe Advanced Designer contains several tasks and subtasks which are displayed on<br \/>\nthe left hand side of the Advanced Designer development environment. The tasks are<br \/>\nbroken down into discrete subsets of the installer creation process.<\/p>\n<p>Project<br \/>\nThe Project task displays InstallAnywhere project information, configures, provides<br \/>\noptions to bundle or define acceptable VMs, and defines product, file installation, and<br \/>\nlocalization options. The Project task includes the following subtasks:<br \/>\n?? Info<br \/>\n?? Description<br \/>\n?? File Settings<br \/>\n?? Platforms<br \/>\n?? Locales<br \/>\n?? Rules<br \/>\n?? Config<br \/>\n?? Java<\/p>\n<p>Info<br \/>\nUse the Info subtask to define basic information about the installer, including the<br \/>\ninstaller title and name, build location, and installation log.<\/p>\n<p>Description<br \/>\nUse the Description subtask to enter vendor and product information to uniquely<br \/>\nidentify your product in the product registry. For the target operating systems, the<br \/>\nproduct registry is essentially a product configuration database which keeps track of<br \/>\nfeatures and components of products and accomplishes tasks such as associating file<br \/>\nname extensions with applications. You must set the Product ID and Version correctly<br \/>\nfor the Find Component in Registry action to work. InstallAnywhere finds the<br \/>\nlocations of components in the Registry by checking the Product ID.<\/p>\n<p>File Settings<br \/>\nUse the File Settings subtask to define timestamps of installed files and the<br \/>\noverwrite behavior for installed files that already exist in the targets install locations.<br \/>\nTimestamps are considered when an installation file already exists on the target<br \/>\nsystem.<\/p>\n<p>Platforms<br \/>\nUse the Platforms subtask to define default settings unique to each target operating<br \/>\nsystem. While InstallAnywhere runs on any Java enabled platform, there are features<br \/>\nthat should be defined separately for each target operating system.<br \/>\nThe default settings for Windows include default locations for install and shortcut<br \/>\nfolders.<br \/>\nThe default settings for Mac OS X include default locations for install and alias folders,<br \/>\ndefault Java VM used for LaunchAnywhere, whether authentication is required for<br \/>\ninstallation, and permissions for files and folders created on the target system.<br \/>\nThe default settings for Linux include default locations for install and link folders,<br \/>\ndefault user interface mode, permissions for files and folders created on the target<br \/>\nsystem, and RPM (RedHat Package Management) settings for Linux installations.<\/p>\n<p>Locales<br \/>\nUse the Locales subtask to define the languages for the installer. A locale is enabled<br \/>\nwhen it is checked.<br \/>\nAll enabled locales generate a locale file that is placed in a folder that is in the same<br \/>\ndirectory as the InstallAnywhere project file. To customize a locale, customize this file.<br \/>\nSee Localization for more information about locales and localization.<\/p>\n<p>Rules<br \/>\nUse the Rules subtask to add tasks to the installer before any installation tasks, even<br \/>\nPre-Install tasks. Use this option to check if this is a proper platform for this<br \/>\ninstallation, or if the user is logged into the root, or has the necessary permissions to<br \/>\nperform the installation.<br \/>\nConfig<br \/>\nUse the Config subtask to define a valid list of Java VMs the installer can use and set<br \/>\nthe heap size for the VMs. Use this subtask to enable debug output and select if it<br \/>\nshould be sent to a file or to a live console, and also set additional commands to the<br \/>\nJava VM other than those which the installer already sets.<\/p>\n<p>Java<br \/>\nUse the Java subtask to fine tune the classpath settings and decide whether to install<br \/>\nthe bundled Java VM. You may choose not to install a VM, Install the VM only while<br \/>\nperforming the installation, or to leave the VM on the target system. If you choose to<br \/>\ninstall the VM, the VM Install folder pull down list provides a variety of locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>msiexpert replied the topic: Re: Advanced Designer in InstallAnywhere<\/strong><br \/>\nGood Articles<\/p>\n<p><strong>remold replied the topic: Re: Advanced Designer in InstallAnywhere<\/strong><br \/>\nHi,<br \/>\nThis is vinay pls call me to this no 9035759227&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>msiexpert created the topic: Advanced Designer in InstallAnywhere Advanced Designer While the Project Wizard leads developers through a few simple steps to create an installer, the Advanced Designer gives greater&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-installanywhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}