Adding Contents Of Directories To The Installation - Symantec WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 8.0 Reference

Adding Contents of Directories to the Installation

Windows Installer Editor Reference
You can add the entire contents of a directory to an installation or use wildcard filters to
add only specified files in the directory. You also can link a directory that you add to the
installation so that it is dynamically updated when the source directory changes.
To add contents of directories to the installation
1. Select Installation Expert > Files or Web Files page.
2. From Current Feature, select a feature or condition. (Because any item you add
must be assigned to a specific feature, you cannot add an item when All Features
is selected.)
Items that you add to a feature are installed on the destination computer only if the
feature is installed.
Items that you add to a condition are installed only if the feature is installed and the
condition is true.
3. In the upper-left list box, select a directory whose contents you want to add.
4. In the lower-left list box, select a directory where you want to add the contents.
5. Click Add Contents.
The Add Contents dialog box appears.
6. Complete the dialog box:
Dest. Directory
Enter the name of the installation directory that will hold the contents of the
directory you're adding. If you don't enter a directory name, the contents are
added to the directory that's selected in the lower-list box.
Include Wildcards, Exclude Wildcards
To add or exclude files based on specific criteria, enter a semicolon-delimited list
of wildcards. Wildcards apply only at the moment you click OK on this dialog
box unless you also mark the Update installation check box below. (Example:
Enter *.EXE for all EXE files. A ? represents any one character.) If you leave the
wildcard fields blank, all files in the directory are added.
Groups of wildcards appear in Include Wildcards, which you can edit.
See Setting Wildcard Groups
Include Subdirectories
Mark this to add all the subdirectories within the directory you're adding. The
wildcard settings and update installation settings apply to the subdirectories
also.
Update installation as files are added or removed from source directory
Mark this to dynamically update the installation when the contents of the
directory you're adding change on your computer. Otherwise, the wildcards
apply only at the moment you add the directory.
Note
If you link a directory using this check box and if files originally added by the
wildcard are now missing, a Wildcard Deleted Files dialog box appears when you
save the installation. Click No to leave temporarily missing files in the
installation.
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