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Open an Existing Transform View
This view is displayed when you click on Open an existing transform or select File | Open. On this view, you can
specify the name and location of the base Windows Installer package, any associated transforms, and the name
and location of the transform file.
Generally, you will only use this option when opening existing transforms that were created by a product other than
Tuner, or created by someone other than yourself. Transforms you create using Tuner are more easily accessed
through using the Open a recent transform selection.
Help View
The Help view provides you instant access to this online help library. You can also access Microsoft's
comprehensive Windows Installer reference library.
Package Validation View
The first recommended step in creating a transform is to perform validation on the base Windows Installer
package. This helps you identify potential problems that you may or may not want to correct using Tuner.
Package validation is performed in the
Validation in the checklist.
Prevalidation View
The Prevalidation view provides you a way to ensure the base Windows Installer package for your transform is
valid. If it fails the validation test, then unexpected (and unwanted) results can occur during installation.
To begin the prevalidation process, select the evaluation file that you want to use for package validation (or click
Browse to locate it), and click Start. By default, the file is evaluated using the full logo-compliant validation file, and
all
internal consistency evaluators
evaluation file, specify the ICE names, and separate them by semicolons if there is more than one.
You can toggle the information level of the displayed results by checking the Show Info Messages, Show Error
Messages, and Show Warning Messages check boxes. If any errors are present, the Windows Installer Package is
invalid. Warning messages highlight potential problems, but will not cause validation to fail. Informational
messages display ongoing information during the validation process.
Viewing the Prevalidation Results
As each ICE is run, Errors, Warnings, and Info messages are generated, and are listed in the Output tab at the
bottom of the interface.
Upon completion of the Prevalidation, the Validation tab is automatically selected, and all of the Errors, Warnings,
and Info messages that were generated are listed in table format. Each table row lists an icon to indicate whether it
is an Error (
description of what caused it to occur.
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(ICEs) are checked. If you just want to test specific ICEs, after you select the
), a Warning ( ), or an Informational Message (
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Prevalidation
View. To continue, click Prevalidation under Package
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), the name of the ICE that generated it, and a brief
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