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Importing an InstallShield Developer Executable

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The Wise Task Manager dialog box appears and remains open until the operation is
completed. However, you can close or minimize the dialog box and continue your
work in Wise Package Studio. From this dialog box, you can view a log file for the
import.
The patch you selected is imported to the active Software Manager database.
During the import process, errors are displayed as they are encountered.
See also:
Revision Control on page 80
Wise Task Manager in the Wise Package Studio Help
You can import an InstallShield® Developer executable (version 7 or 8 only) into the
Software Manager database from a network or local drive. Do this to detect file and
resource conflicts between an InstallShield Developer installation and other packages,
but you cannot or do not want to repackage the InstallShield installation. Corporate
developers also can do this when they have applications whose installations were
created in InstallShield Developer and they cannot or do not want to convert them.
The Import Wizard reads the .EXE, extracts information about any .MSI that is
embedded in the .EXE, then creates an application and package for the .MSI in the
Software Manager database. If multiple .MSIs are embedded in the InstallShield .EXE,
then an application and package is created for each .MSI. You also can choose to have
the installation's source files copied to the share point directory.
You cannot resolve conflicts in or export an InstallShield Developer package, because
neither the original .EXE nor its embedded .MSIs can be edited or recompiled. However,
you can change packages that conflict with the InstallShield Developer installation.
You can distribute an InstallShield package as part of a group for easy deployment by a
distribution system. To do so, import the InstallShield package, create a package
definition file, and then add it to a group for deployment.
See Creating a Package Definition
page 88.
Note
If you have Symantec Management Platform 7.0 SP2 or later, you can use Wise
Connector to import the InstallShield package from the Software Manager database into
Software Management Framework. You can then use Software Management Solution to
distribute the package.
Note
You can convert an InstallShield Professional installation to an .MSI if you have access to
a script project file (.IPR) that was created in version 5.5 or higher of InstallShield®
Professional.
See InstallShield Professional Conversion Guidelines in the Wise Package Studio Help.
To import a single InstallShield Developer executable
1. (Enterprise Management Server only.) If multiple databases are open, select a
database in the Applications/Packages pane.
on page 115 and Creating Package Groups
Importing Packages
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