Symantec WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 7.0 SP2 - REFERENCE FOR WISE INSTALLATION EXPRESS V1.0 Installation Manual page 50

Windows Installer Editor Reference
Templates\File contains templates for stand-alone files.
To create a custom template in the Wise editor
1. Select File menu > New.
The New Installation File dialog box appears.
2. Select a template file on which to base the new template and click OK. Only icons
that have a corresponding file in the Templates directory are templates; other icons
cannot be used to create or edit templates.
A new installation or merge module opens.
3. Make all the changes that should appear in installations that will be created with this
template.
4. To include a description that will appear on the New Installation File dialog box when
you click this template:
a. Select Setup Editor > Product tab.
b. Click the Summary icon.
c. In the upper-right pane, double-click Comments.
d. On the Summary Details dialog box that appears, enter a description of this
template in Value and click OK.
5. Save the file:
a. Select File menu > Save As.
b. Name the file and save it in the Templates directory as a .WSI, .MSI, .WSM, or
.MSM.
When you save the template, a page view is created with the same name and is
listed in the Page Views drop-down list. However, when you use the template to
create an installation, the default page view is the page view that was displayed
when the template was created. If the template's default page view is a custom
page view, you can customize it.
See Customizing Page Views
6. To test the new template, select File menu > New.
The New Installation File dialog box appears and the file that you just created
appears in the Custom Templates category. If the New Installation File dialog box
does not contain the new template, verify that you saved it in the correct format
and location.
7. Select the template you just created and click OK.
8. Verify that the changes you made in the template are present in this new
installation.
To create a custom template in the Visual Studio integrated editor
1. If a solution is open in Visual Studio, close it.
2. Select File menu > New > File.
The New File dialog box appears.
3. From the Categories list, select Wise Files.
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