Setup Properties View; Dialogs View; Add/Remove Programs View - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

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Chapter 12: Customizing Installations Using Tuner

Tuner Reference

Setup Properties View

Even though Tuner provides you views to customize many areas of the Windows Installer package, it may be

necessary to edit property values that are not available elsewhere. The Setup Properties view exposes the entries

in the properties table (the underlying structure of Windows Installer packages). You can also add your own

custom properties here.

Properties exist in two formats: Private and Public. Private properties are set by the software vendor or by the

Windows Installer during installation and cannot be altered. Private properties are always lowercase, and appear in

Tuner in grayed out text. Public properties, which are always in capital letters, can also be set by the software

vendor, but can be edited. Tuner also allows the addition of Public properties to the transform. The Public

properties that you create can be edited or removed as necessary, whereas preexisting Public properties can only

are doing. The changes you make may cause validation errors, installation errors, or other unforeseen problems.

When customizing the Windows Installer package, you may want to disable particular panels that appear during

the installation, administrative, patch, or maintenance sequences. You can do so from the Dialogs view.

This view contains a list of each of the four installation modes (installation, administrative, maintenance, and

patch), with the associated dialogs that appear as part of the UI sequence during the selected mode. You can

enable or disable these dialogs by either the check box to the left of the dialog name, or by using the Show and

Hide buttons.

If you hide a dialog that appears in more than one sequence, the dialog is hidden during all sequences.

During each installation mode, Windows Installer displays a Wizard containing a sequence of panels.

However, the underlying Windows Installer technology actually uses a series of dialogs displayed in sequence.

During runtime, they are referred to as panels (as with other Wizards); at design time, they are individual dialogs that

can be enabled or disabled as necessary.

The Windows 2000 and Windows XP Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel differs from the previous Windows

operating systems in many ways. Depending on how the Windows Installer setup is configured, the user has the

option of removing, repairing, or changing the installation with the click of a button.

Windows 2000 and XP users are also able to access additional information in Add/Remove Programs in Control

Panel not available on previous platforms. With this information, it is easier for your end users to find technical

support links and phone numbers, product update information, and information about your company.

Before you begin changing properties in the Setup Properties view, ensure you know exactly what you

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