External Process Templates - Symantec WISE PACKAGE STUDIO 8.0 - REFERENCE V1.0 Reference

External Process Templates

Wise Package Studio Reference
Repackage into .VSA format
Repackage using WiseScript
Customize MSI using
transform
Installation Quality
Assurance
For details, click the Workbench Projects tab and click a task in the left pane to display
its help.
Enterprise Management Server only.
You can maintain a separate, or external Wise Software Repository whose Workbench
database contains master process templates that you have customized to meet your
organization's standards. You then connect to that database from one or more other
repositories so that users of those repositories have access to the master templates.
This ensures that all users across your organization use the same standard, approved
processes.
Use Wise Repository Manager to connect to an external database by selecting the share
point directory with which it is associated. See Connecting to an External Workbench
Database in the Getting Started Guide.
When the connection is made, the process templates in that database become visible in
Workbench, and the predefined process templates in the local database become
unavailable. If the external share point is disconnected or otherwise unavailable, then
the predefined process templates in the local repository become available. Process
templates that users create in their local database are always available.
Creating Projects, Processes, and Tools
Leads you through the steps needed to repackage an
installation as a Virtual Software Package. This
process creates a virtual software archive file (.VSA).
Leads you through the steps needed to repackage an
installation as a WiseScript.
Customizes an existing Windows Installer package by
creating a transform file. This is typically done to
eliminate end user interaction during the installation.
The results of this process are a transform file and a
shortcut to apply the transform to the base Windows
Installer package.
Leads you through the steps needed to test a
Windows Installer package. (Quality Assurance only.)
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