Creating Basic Installers

InstallAnywhere 2020 SP1

This section provides procedures and suggestions about common situations when using InstallAnywhere to build a basic installer.

Creating Basic Installers Tasks
Section	Description
Working with InstallAnywhere Projects	Includes background information on the file for an InstallAnywhere project; also explains how to create new projects and open existing projects.
Specifying Installer Information	Describes how to define basic information for your installer, including how to include a software identification tag for your product.
Organizing Files for Your Installer	Describes various tasks and best practices for managing files, components, features and other items in your InstallAnywhere projects. Also discusses how to work with source paths instead of hard-coded paths, which is especially helpful in team development environments.
Customizing Sequences	Explains how to schedule the panels that are displayed and the actions that are launched at run time.
Defining Rules and Rule Expressions that Evaluate Conditions on Target Systems	Describes how to define rules for InstallAnywhere installers, specific actions, and groups of actions.
Configuring Servers	Describes how to manage SQL databases and deploy Web applications to application servers.
Preparing Your Installer for Maintenance Mode	Explains how to implement Maintenance Mode in an installer so that end users are able to add or remove features to previously installed products as well as repair broken installations.
Configuring Installation Rollback Behavior	Explains how to enable rollback behavior to avoid application corruption if an end user cancels an installation before it is completed or if an installation encounters a fatal error.
Building and Testing Installers	Explains how to build and test installers.
Working with JRE VM Packs	Discusses how to download, install (for the InstallAnywhere IDE), and bundle VM packs.
Creating Launchers for Java Applications	Describes the process of creating a LaunchAnywhere launcher for any Java software that your installer deploys.
Launching Additional Installers	Explains how to launch another installer from your installer.
Working with Source Code Control Software	Describes the use of source code control software with InstallAnywhere.

See Also

Concepts of InstallAnywhere Installer Development

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