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Choose Action Panel

On this Panel you specify whether to evaluate the selected source packages against Best Practice rules or against
other packages. You can also specify whether you want ConflictSolver to automatically resolve resolvable conflicts
, and whether to automatically generate a report when conflict analysis is complete.
The following options are included:
Table 13-98 • Choose Action Panel Options
Options
Evaluate source package
against best practice rules
Detect conflicts between
source package and other
packages
Run Resolution
Generate Reports

Best Practice Rules Panel

ConflictSolver includes Best Practice rules that operate like ICEs (Internal Consistency Evaluators) to enforce
Microsoft best practices. While an ICE is a custom action written by Microsoft which is used during validation to
determine if an installation package is built according to Windows Installer standards, an ACE is a custom action
included with ConflictSolver that is also used to enforce Windows Installer standards.
In the Best Practice Rules Panel, select the types of Best Practice Rules to evaluate in conflict analysis. By default,
the Best Practice ACEs that are selected on the
The following Best Practice ACE rules are available.
Table 13-99 • Best Practice ACE Rules
Conflict Type
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Description
Select this option to include Best Practice ACE rules in this conflict analysis.
Select this option to include Conflict ACE rules in this conflict analysis.
Select to display the Conflict Resolution dialog box after conflict detection.
From the Conflict Resolution dialog box, you can access information
pertaining to the last execution of the Conflict Wizard. This persisted conflict
data allows you to view when the last execution was performed, the products
that it was run against, the ACE rules used, and conflicts discovered. The
dialog box also provides a list of updated, deleted, or added products that
may necessitate performing conflict identification again.
Select this option to generate a conflict detection analysis report containing a
summary of the conflicts that were detected, and a detailed description of
each identified conflict including how this conflict will be resolved.
Associated Rules
ACE04, ACE05, ACE06,
ADS-0950-UG00
Rules Tab of the Options dialog box will be selected.
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