About the InstallAnywhere Advanced Designer Authoring Environment
InstallAnywhere 2021
InstallAnywhere’s Advanced Designer authorizing environment provides fine control over installer functionality. It enables you to define multiple install sets, add customized splash screen graphics, execute commands from within the installation process, set up build configurations, and use many other advanced features.
Information that you enter in the Advanced Designer is saved directly to the underlying project file.
The InstallAnywhere Advanced Designer has an intuitive, graphical interface that enables you to manage all aspects of your installation projects. The Advanced Designer enables you to add complex and powerful elements to your installation.
The Advanced Designer gives you precise control over all the design options of an installation project. You can use this interface to assign files and actions to feature sets, which enables end users to specify which parts of the product are installed, and to add rules to selectively install different files or different installation locations depending on the target platform.
The Advanced Designer has two main navigational elements:
| • | The main navigational element is the horizontal row of tabs near the top of the InstallAnywhere interface. You can click these tabs to open various pages—Project, Installer UI, Organization, Sequence, and Build. |
| • | The secondary navigational element is the vertical column of tabs on the left side of the InstallAnywhere interface. The list of tabs in this area changes, depending on which page in the Advanced Designer is currently open. |
For more information on the Advanced Designer, see the following:
| • | To become familiar with using the Advanced Designer interface, review the InstallAnywhere Tutorial. |
| • | For detailed information on the Advanced Designer interface, see Advanced Designer Reference. |