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Chapter 12: Customizing Installations Using Tuner

Tuner Reference

If a row is grayed out, it indicates that the table cannot be edited in the Direct Editor (perhaps because it is in an

external package). If a row is active, you can double-click on it to open that row's associated table. The Direct

Editor is launched and the table and/or table cells that are causing the problem are highlighted in red.

This feature makes it very easy for you to use the Direct Editor to edit values in the MSI tables of the base Windows

Installer package and store them in your transform. For more information, see

If no errors appear in the results (providing you are displaying errors), then the package is valid against the

specific ICEs you specified, or against the entire evaluation file (if no ICEs were selected).

Organization View

The Organization view allows you to modify two main parts of the installation that your end users will see: the

default path and default company name, and the actual features that can, will, or will not be installed.

Each subview of the Organization View is described below:

Table 12-14 • Organization View Subviews

Product Properties

Features View

This view gives you a way to specify the default path on the user's computer into which the application will be

installed. You can also specify the default organization name (i.e., your company's name).

The following properties are associated with this view:

Default Destination Variable

This is the name of the variable that stores the Default Destination Path. If you change this variable, you could

create errors during postvalidation. Click on the variable's value to display a combo box that allows you to select a

When a user runs a custom installation of a Windows Installer package, the Custom

Setup dialog box provides a default installation path and a default organization

name. The Product Properties view provides a mechanism for changing these

Features are the building blocks of the installation. They represent distinct pieces of

functionality to end users, such as program files, help files, or clip art. You can

modify which features and subfeatures are installed, and how they are installed, in

the Features view.

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