Features

InstallAnywhere 2024 R2

Features are a logical grouping of capabilities in a product. Features are visible to the end user only when the end user chooses to customize an install set. Features are effective if developers want to give their end users fine-grained choices about what to install.

Features may be hierarchical, and there can be as many as desired, but there needs to be at least one. For an example of features in a hierarchy, a Documentation sub-feature and a Samples sub-feature could be added beneath the main Help feature.

Several features make up each install set, and each feature can belong to one or more install sets. End users select features as an option from the Choose Install Set panel or console.

Files can be assigned directly to features, or you can assign components to features. InstallAnywhere actually creates components for you if you assign files directly to features.

End users can uninstall specific features if desired.