Defining Rules and Rule Expressions that Evaluate Conditions on Target Systems
InstallAnywhere 2026 R1
Rules are conditions that you can define for your project’s installers, specific files or actions, or groups of actions. When you assign a rule to an action, for example, installers run that action only when the rules that are assigned to it return a true result.
InstallAnywhere also includes a rule expression manager which allows installer authors to:
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Create complex rule expressions at the project level |
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Combine multiple rules and save them to a single rule expression |
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Reuse a rule or a set of rules across the project |
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Associate a rule expression to a file extension, including the option to automatically associate the rule expression to a file whenever a file containing that file extension is added to the project |
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Remove associated rules from custom file extensions |
The following sections provide procedures for various functionality that you can do with project level rule expressions:
See Also
Rules Reference