View Bar; Checklist; Customization Steps Checklist - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

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Chapter 12: Customizing Installations Using Tuner

Tuner Reference

View Bar

The View Bar, when visible, is located at the far left of the user interface. It provides quick shortcuts to important

areas of Tuner, and can be toggled on and off using the View Bar command under the View menu, or from the

corresponding toolbar button.

There are three different View Bars available:

InstallShield

This View Bar gives you quick access to the Tuner Start Page and the Help view.

Checklist Steps

This View Bar provides access to each of the checklist steps, which include Package Validation, Organization,

System Configuration, Application Configuration, Package Preparation, and Additional Tools views.

This View Bar gives you quick access to each view in Tuner.

The checklist is a graphical tree that shows you all of the views available in Tuner, as well as their association with

other views. When you select a view, it appears in the pane to the right of the checklist; you can then customize the

part of the Windows Installer package pertaining to that view. The Customization Steps Checklist is a subset of the

entire checklist.

The checklist can be toggled from the View menu and from the Toolbar.

To assist you with your customization, Tuner provides you with a set of steps that cover all parts of the MSI file that

can be customized in your transform project. You do not have to follow these steps in sequential order, or even

complete all the steps. Below is a brief description of each step, and how they fit into the customization workflow.

Table 12-7 • Customization Steps

Prevalidation View

This step allows you to pre-check the base Windows Installer package to ensure it is

valid according to MSI standards before you take the time to create the transform file.

If it is invalid, there may be unexpected results with your installation. Tuner allows you

to copy the results of the prevalidation to the clipboard, where you can paste them

into a message to the application's vendor. This is one of the most important steps in

the Tuner workflow. Without it, all of your work might be wasted.

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