Chapter 3: Managing Packages; About Managing Packages; Package Groups - Symantec SOFTWARE MANAGER 7.0 SP2 - REFERENCE FOR WISE INSTALLATION STUDIO V1.0 Installation Manual

Chapter 3
Managing Packages

About Managing Packages

Package Groups

Software Manager Reference
This chapter includes the following topics:
Package Groups on page 41
Viewing and Editing Package Attributes
Viewing Resource Properties
Software Manager Reports
Moving a Package to Another Application
Deleting a Package on page 48
Changing the Package Status
After a package has been imported into the Software Manager database, you can do the
following to manage it:
Group packages for more efficient management.
View package resources, either on-screen or by running any of the predefined
Software Manager reports.
Perform operations on .MSI or .WSI packages to add, remove, or replace merge
modules.
Note
Features that are specific to Wise Package Studio are not available when you access
Software Manager from Windows Installer Editor.
A package group consists of a subset of the packages in the Software Manager
database. It can represent a functional area within your company, any other entity that
uses a subset of your packages, or a series of applications that are likely to be installed
together. A group can contain a single package, and it can have many levels of
subgroups.
You can use groups to:
Organize your packages, which lets you filter the displays and some of the reports in
Software Manager.
Example: Suppose you develop applications for engineers and graphic designers.
The engineers never use the graphic designer applications, and vice versa, so you
create a package group for the engineering applications and a package group for the
graphic design applications. Then you can filter your resource reports by group,
because it doesn't matter whether the engineering applications share resources with
the graphic design applications.
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