Selecting Releases To Build; Enabling App-V Application Building When In Direct Edit Mode - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Chapter 10: Creating Customized Virtual Applications
Creating Microsoft App-V Applications

Selecting Releases to Build

You select the releases that you want to build an App-V application for on the Releases tree of the Build Options
page.
Important •
simply click the Build toolbar button to create a new release or open the Releases view of the InstallShield
Installation Designer. You must create at least one release before you will be able to build an App-V application. For
more information, see
If you are editing a Windows Installer package (Direct Edit Mode) or transform file (Direct MST Mode), the Releases
tree on the Build Options page is not displayed.
Task: To select releases to build:
1. Open the Build Options page.
2. Select the releases in the Releases tree that you want to build an App-V application for.
Important •
build that particular release, you want to also build an App-V application for that release. However, the releases
that are selected on the Build Options page have no bearing upon which release is built when you click the
Build button on the toolbar. When you initiate a build by clicking the Build button, a build is initiated for the
active release—the release that was most recently selected on the Installation Designer Releases view. The
output of that build would depend upon what releases were selected on the Build Options page:
• Active release selected—A Windows Installer package and an App-V application would be built.
•
Active release not selected—Only a Windows Installer package would be built.
Note •

Enabling App-V Application Building When in Direct Edit Mode

When you are editing a Windows Installer (
Assistant, you are in Direct Edit Mode or Direct MST Mode. Because you are directly editing a Windows Installer
package, you save your changes by selecting Save on the File menu. It not necessary to build the package,
because it is already built. Therefore, InstallShield's Build function is disabled.
However, you do need to run the build process to build an App-V application for this Windows Installer package. To
do this, perform the following steps:
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You cannot create or edit a release in the Microsoft App-V Assistant. If no releases exist, you can
Creating and Building
When you select a release on the Build Options page, you are specifying that whenever you
To build more than one release at a time, perform a batch build. See Performing Batch Builds.
Releases.
) package or a transform (
.msi
) file in the Microsoft App-V
.mst
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