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Chapter 8: Converting Legacy Installations Using the Repackager Interface
Scanning InstallShield Professional Setups for Additional Data
Automatic Launch of the SmartScan Wizard
For your convenience, if a Repackaging project is opened (either by using Open on the File menu or by using the
Repackaging Wizard), and the project meets certain conditions, the SmartScan Wizard is automatically launched.
The SmartScan Wizard is automatically launched:
• if the original setup was an InstallShield Professional 5.5 or later installation, and
• the file has not already been repackaged using the InstallShield Professional Logging Method (available
for InstallShield Editor and DevStudio 9.x InstallScript installations only), and
• the SmartScan Wizard has not already been run on this project
Task: To scan an InstallShield Professional setup:
1. From the Project menu, select SmartScan Wizard. The Welcome Panel appears.
2. Click Next. The Original InstallShield Professional Setup Panel appears.
3. The Specify the path of the original setup executable field will be filled in by default if that information
exists. Browse to the InstallShield Professional setup you want to scan, and specify a password if required.
4. In the Original target folder field, enter the directory where the product was installed during the repackaging
process. In most cases, this will be a subdirectory of
5. Click Next. The Scanning Panel appears.
6. When scanning is complete, click Next. The Setup Feature Tree Panel appears, listing the features and
components that were configured in the InstallShield Professional project.
7. Select the Add feature tree option if you want to use the feature information defined in the Professional
media.
8. Click Next. The Scanning Media Panel appears, showing the results of Repackager's search for any extra
setup information in the media.
9. Click Finish to apply the results to the project.
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The setup is scanned, and any additional files, shortcuts,
appropriate view.
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The data captured by the SmartScan Wizard appears in the color designated in the SmartScan items
field on the Colors tab of the Options dialog box.
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If you selected the Add feature tree option, the files, shortcuts and registry entries are grouped into
features corresponding to the InstallShield Professional components.
Note • After you have scanned an InstallShield Professional project and included data from it in your Repackager
project, you can save the project. When you reopen it, this collected data no longer retains the "scanned" color,
since it is now part of the Repackager project.
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