Evaluation Files And Internal Consistency Evaluators; Setup Organization - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

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Chapter 12: Customizing Installations Using Tuner

This feature makes it very easy for you to use the Direct Editor to edit values in the MSI tables of the base Windows

Installer package and store them in your transform. For more information, see

If no errors appear in the results (providing you are displaying errors), then the package and transform are

valid against the specific ICEs you specified, or against the entire evaluation file (if no ICEs were selected).

It is possible for a package that passed the prevalidation to fail the postvalidation. Remember changes made

in the Setup Properties can affect your installation. If your package fails postvalidation, check all changes made in

the Setup Properties for accuracy. To identify the original Setup Properties, you can create a new transform file that

can be deleted at any time. Changes made using the Direct Editor can also affect your installation's functionality.

Evaluation Files and Internal Consistency Evaluators

When you prevalidate the base Windows Installer package, or postvalidate the package and your transform, Tuner

runs several

or your transform and package does not pass one of these ICEs, Tuner reports the failure. If the problem is in the

base package, you can contact the software vendor to report the problem.

Setup Organization

Organization View

default path and default company name, and the actual features that can, will, or will not be installed.

Topics in this section include the following:

Changing a Feature's Visibility

Setting the Initial State of a Feature

Editing a Feature's Description

Setting the Default Destination

Setting the Default Organization

Changing the Destination Variable

Preventing Features from Displaying During Custom Installation

Setting Feature Properties

Using Feature Advertisement

Internal Consistency Evaluators

allows you to modify two main parts of the installation that your end users will see: the

(ICEs) contained in the specified evaluation file. If the base package

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Directly Editing

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