Publishing Components

InstallShield 2016

Project • This information applies to the following project types:

The Publishing advanced setting for a component enables you to specify publishing information for your component. Publishing is a type of advertising (just-in-time installation) in which no user-interface elements are created for the component during installation, but the component can be installed through Add or Remove Programs or when an installed component requests the published component from the installer.

You must create at least one component ID for each advertised component.

Important • Do not confuse the component ID with the GUID that is entered in the Component Code setting for the component; they must be unique values. The component ID that you use for the Publishing advanced setting is a category identifier that represents the category of components that are being grouped together as a qualified component.

Each component ID must have at least one qualifier. The qualifier is a string that you can use to distinguish this language or version of the component from any other (for example, to specify a language). It must be unique for the component.

At run time, the installation registers the component IDs and qualifiers and uses these unique values to manage the published components. By calling the Windows Installer functions, your installed component—or another installed component (known as cross-product advertisement)—can request information about an advertised component and install it.

See Also

Specifying Publishing Information

Publishing Settings

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