Server Locations Dialog Box

InstallShield 2024

Project: This information applies to the Transform projects.

The Server Locations dialog box opens when you click the ellipsis button (...) in the Server Locations setting of the General Information view. The Server Locations dialog box lets you specify network and URL paths to the product’s installation package and related files so that Windows Installer can find them if they are needed. For example, if an end user installs the product from a network server or Web site and one or more of the features were set to be installed on first use, Windows Installer may need access to the .msi package and related files on the server or Web site sometime after the initial installation.

InstallShield adds the paths that you specify to the SOURCELIST property. Windows Installer appends this list to the end of an end user’s existing source list for the product at run time.

The validity of the server location that you specify is determined when the installation needs to access the server remotely. That is, if a server is not available, or if you added an invalid server, the entry will be ignored if the resource is needed, and errors might be generated. Each location that is specified must have the complete source for the installation. The entire directory tree at each source location must be the same and must include all of the required source files, including any .cab files. Each location must have an .msi file with the same file name and product code.

Tip:Server paths can contain environment variables that are identified with a percent sign (%). For example, the following path uses the Home environment variable:

\\Server1\%Home%\Office

Server Locations Dialog Box Settings
Setting	Description
Source Paths	This box shows the list of paths that you have specified.
New	Click this button to add a new path to the Source Paths box.
Delete	Click this button to delete the selected path from the Source Paths box.
Move Up	Click this button to move the selected path higher in the list of paths.
Move Down	Click this button to move the selected path lower in the list of paths.