Files View Tab

InstallShield 2016 » Options Dialog Box

In the Files View tab on the Options dialog box, you can indicate preferences such as which columns you want to be displayed in several areas of InstallShield.

If you make any changes on this tab, close and reopen your project to see the changes take effect.

Files View Tab Settings

Setting

Project Type

Description

Size

Basic MSI,
DIM,
InstallScript,
InstallScript MSI,
Merge Module

To include a Size column in the following areas of InstallShield, select this check box:

• Files and Folders view
• Files subview in the Components view
• Application Files page of the Project Assistant

Link To

Basic MSI,
DIM,
InstallScript,
InstallScript MSI,
Merge Module

To include a Link To column in the following areas of InstallShield, select this check box:

• Files and Folders view
• Files subview in the Components view
• Application Files page of the Project Assistant

Modified Date

Basic MSI,
DIM,
InstallScript,
InstallScript MSI,
Merge Module

To include a Modified Date column in the following areas of InstallShield, select this check box:

• Files and Folders view
• Files subview in the Components view
• Application Files page of the Project Assistant

Destination

Basic MSI,
DIM,
InstallScript,
InstallScript MSI,
Merge Module

To include a Destination column in the Application Files page of the Project Assistant, select this check box.

Version

Basic MSI,
DIM,
InstallScript,
InstallScript MSI,
Merge Module

To include a Version column in the following areas of InstallShield, select this check box:

• Files and Folders view
• Files subview in the Components view

Important • Selecting the Version check box will slow the performance of the aforementioned views.

File Key

Basic MSI,
DIM,
InstallScript MSI,
Merge Module

To include a Key column in the Files subview in the Components view, select this check box.

Maximum files to display

Basic MSI,
DIM,
InstallScript,
InstallScript MSI,
Merge Module

Specify the maximum number of files that you want to be displayed for a dynamic file link in the following areas of InstallShield:

• Files and Folders view
• Files subview in the Components view
• Application Files page of the Project Assistant

The default value is 1000. If the dynamic file link includes more than the specified number of files, the top entry in the list of files is called **List Truncated**.

Clean up unused components

Basic MSI,
DIM,
InstallScript,
InstallScript MSI,
Merge Module

If you want InstallShield to remove unused components from your project automatically, select this check box.

When this check box is selected, you delete all of the files in a component, and that component is not required elsewhere, that component is deleted automatically.

Examples of scenarios in which a component is still required and will not be deleted from the project automatically are:

• The component is selected in the Destination computer’s folders pane in the Files and Folders view.
• A folder would no longer be displayed in the Files and Folders view if the component were removed.
• The component is selected for an item in another area of the product (for example, for XML file changes that are configured in the XML File Changes view).
• In InstallScript projects, DefaultComponent under the Application Target Folder is never deleted automatically.

See Also

Options Dialog Box

InstallShield 2016 Help Library

August 2016

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