Features Panel

InstallShield 2026 » Release Wizard

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The Features panel allows you to specify which features are included in the built release.

Panel Options

Use the "Include in Build" property

If this option is selected, each feature whose Include in Build property is set to Yes is included in the built release and each feature whose "Include in Build" property is set to No is not included.

Specify the features

Lets you specify for each feature whether the feature is included in the built release. To toggle a feature’s inclusion, click the check box next to the feature. A checked box indicates that a feature is included in the built release; an unchecked box indicates that a feature is not included.

You cannot toggle the inclusion status of InstallScript objects. Objects will always have the same inclusion status as their parent feature.

A disabled checked box indicates that the feature cannot be excluded because it is required by a feature that is included.

If you toggle a feature to included, all its parent, child, and required features will also become included, as well as all child features of its required features. If you toggle the feature to excluded, then its child features will become excluded as well. If this feature’s parent has no more included features, then the parent will become excluded as well; a parent feature must have at least one child feature included for it to be included. If you exclude all but one of the visible child features of a required feature, the remaining visible child feature of the required feature is automatically included and disabled so that at least one child feature remains included.

Visible features (features whose Visible property is set to Yes) are displayed with a filled icon (); invisible features are displayed with an unfilled icon ().