Chapter 2: Setting Up; How You Can Set Up Windows Installer Editor; Setting Options - Symantec WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 8.0 Reference

Chapter 2
Setting Up

How you can set up Windows Installer Editor

Setting Options

Windows Installer Editor Reference
This chapter includes the following topics:
How you can set up Windows Installer Editor
Setting Options on page 33
Creating and Editing Installation Templates
Component Rules on page 49
Before you create and edit installations, set up Windows Installer Editor to reflect your
organization's standards:
Set options that control the installations you create and determine the installation
resources you use.
See Setting Options
Decide whether you need to customize the templates that installations are based
on.
See Creating and Editing Installation Templates
Decide which rule set to use to help you manage the creation of components in
installations. You can edit the predefined rule sets or create new rule sets. If the
predefined rule sets do not meed your needs, you can duplicate them and modify
the copies as needed, or you can create new rule sets.
See Component Rules
You can set options that control the installations you create and determine the
installation resources you use. Some of the options are global; they are set for all files
you open with Windows Installer Editor, including files you created previously. Other
options provide defaults for new files and do not affect existing files.
You set options on the Options dialog box, which you access by selecting Tools menu >
Options.
The Options dialog box contains the following tabs. See:
Setting General Options
Setting .NET Assembly Options
Setting Advertising Options
Setting Digital Signature Options
Setting ExpressBuild Options
Setting Installation Expert Options
Setting Merge Module Directories
Activating Suppressed Prompts
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