ISAlias Table

InstallShield 2015

Project: This information applies to the following project types:

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Basic MSI

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InstallScript

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InstallScript MSI

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InstallScript Object

If you upgrade a project that was created with InstallShield Professional to InstallShield 2015, InstallShield might add data to the ISAlias table.

In Windows Installer, identifiers cannot contain spaces and must contain only specified characters. Because of this, some of your component names, feature names, or script-defined folder names that you used in InstallShield Professional might not be valid in a project that you upgraded to a Windows Installer–based project. To address this issue, InstallShield uses aliasing to match the old name with a new identifier. (InstallShield does not perform a lexicon change for these names because they might be used as strings within your script.)

Note: If you upgrade to an InstallScript project, the only invalid characters in feature names or script-defined folder names are the following:

\ / : * ? " < > |

In component names, the preceding characters and the single quotation mark (') are invalid.

The ISAlias table contains the following information.

ISAlias Table Information
Column Name	Information
Alias	Name string used in InstallShield Professional.
Identifier	String that is used by InstallShield to reference the alias.
Table	Name of the table that uses the alias (for example, Feature). This table is available in the Direct Editor.

ISAlias Table

InstallShield 2015 Help Library

June 2015