License Agreement Panel Action

The License Agreement panel action lets you display license information and prompts end users to agree or disagree with the terms of the license.

With this action, you need to specify a text file (either HTML or plain text) that contains the license information that you want to be displayed on the run-time panel.

The Properties Customizer consists of the following tabs:

• General Settings
• Label Settings

General Settings

The General Settings tab of the Properties Customizer Includes the following controls:

Properties Customizer / General Settings Tab

Control

Description

Title

Enter a title for the License Agreement panel.

Prompt

Enter the instructions that you want to display to the end user on the License Agreement panel of the installer. By default, the prompt text is Installation and Use of $PRODUCT_NAME$ Requires Acceptance of the Following License Agreement.

License Agreement Text Source File

Specify the path of the license agreement source file from which the license agreement text you want to be displayed on the License Agreement panel during installation. Select one of the following options to specify the file path:

• Path—Select this option and click Choose File to locate a license agreement source file.
• Existing File—Select this option to reference a license agreement source file by specifying its location when the file already exists within the InstallAnywhere project. Use this option to reuse the existing file for this panel instead of selecting a new file from the system.

Note:A license agreement source file must be in either plain text (.txt) or HTML (.html) format.

Open external links in the user’s default browser (HTML only)

Specify how you want hyperlinks in an HTML-based license agreement on the License Agreement panel are handled during installation.

If the Open external links in the user’s default browser (HTML only) checkbox is selected, hyperlinks will open in the user’s default web browser, and If this checkbox is cleared, hyperlinks will open within the installer’s embedded HTML viewer, where supported.

Default setting for acceptance of the license agreement

Specify whether you want the I accept the terms of the License Agreement checkbox is selected by default on the License Agreement panel. This setting includes the following options (radio buttons):

• Agree— Select this option to have the I accept the terms of the License Agreement checkbox selected by default on the License Agreement panel.
• Disagree—Select this option to have the I accept the terms of the License Agreement checkbox cleared by default on the License Agreement panel, requiring the end user to explicitly select it before proceeding.

Force user to scroll through license agreement

Specify whether you want that the end user must scroll to the end of the license agreement text on the License Agreement panel before the Next button is enabled.

Selecting this checkbox ensures that the end user view the entire license agreement before continuing with the installation.

Include ‘Do Not Accept’

Specify whether you want to display the I do NOT accept the terms of the License Agreement radio button on the License Agreement panel during installation. Selecting the Include ‘Do Not Accept’ check box display this radio button.

If a user selects the I do NOT accept the terms of the License Agreement radio button on the License Agreement panel, the installation does not proceed and remains blocked unless the user selects the I accept the terms of the License Agreement radio button.

Preview

Click the Preview button to see a sample run-time panel.

Label Settings

For information on using the options on the Label Settings, see Panel Action Settings.