About Actions

InstallAnywhere 2024 R2

InstallAnywhere supports an extensible action architecture that gives developers the ability to perform operations during installation. Some of these actions are as simple as installing files and folders and as complex as creating modifying text files, executing custom code during the installation process, or extracting contents from a compressed file.

Actions may occur in the background, not requiring any user input, or may require user input:

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General/Install Actions do not require any user input.

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Panel Actions and Console Actions request user input. Panel Actions display a graphic element that requests user input.

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Console Actions display a command-line request.

You can schedule actions to various sequences (Pre-Install, Install, Post-Install, Pre-Uninstall, Uninstall and Post-Uninstall) in your projects.

The following actions are available:

Actions
Action	Description
Install Actions	Install actions are used to deploy the installer payload to the target machine.
Uninstall Actions	Uninstall actions are used to customize the flow of the InstallAnywhere Uninstaller.
General Actions	Most General actions occur transparently to the end user. They do not require any user input.
Panel Actions	Panel actions are requests for user input that appear inside the graphical installer wizard.
Console Actions	Console actions are command-line requests for user input and are used during command-line installation.
System i (i5/OS) Actions	System i actions are general, install, panel, and console actions specifically for installers that run on the i5/OS operating system on System i.
Plug-In Actions	Custom code can be integrated with the InstallAnywhere Advanced Designer and appear as a Plug-In action in the Choose an Action dialog box.