Creating Properties in Advanced UI and Suite/Advanced UI Projects

InstallShield 2025

Project: This information applies to the following project types:

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Advanced UI

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Suite/Advanced UI

Edition:The Advanced UI project type is available in the Professional edition of InstallShield. The Suite/Advanced UI project type is available in the Premier edition of InstallShield. For information about the differences between these two project types, see Advanced UI Projects vs. Suite/Advanced UI Projects.

You can create your own project-wide properties through the Property Manager. These properties allow you to set a value in one place and use it throughout your project.

To create a property:

In the View List under Behavior and Logic, click Property Manager.

Click the New Property button. InstallShield adds a new row at the bottom of the view.

In the Name column, enter a name for the new property.

In the Value column, enter a value for the property.

In the Formatted column, select or clear the check box, which lets you indicate whether the text that you entered in the Value column is formatted.

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To leave the property value (including square brackets and the content within them) as is, clear the Formatted check box.

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If the value in the Value column contains one or more formatted expressions with property names, environment variable references, or other special strings that you want to be resolved at run time, select the Formatted check box. To learn about the syntax that is available for these expressions, see Using Formatted Expressions that Advanced UI and Suite/Advanced UI Installations Resolve at Run Time.

Tip:Use the following guidelines when entering values in the Property Manager view:

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To overwrite all of the text in a table cell, click the table cell and then type your new property name, value, or comments.

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To place the cursor at a particular place within a table cell, double-click that place. Then type your change.