Publishing a Merge Module to a Repository from Within a Merge Module Project

InstallShield 2016

If you are designing a merge module that you would like to reuse in Windows Installer–based installations or share with other users, you can publish it to a repository. InstallShield enables you to configure a release for the merge module so that the merge module is published to a repository whenever the release is built.

To configure the settings for publishing a merge module to a repository from within the merge module project:

1. In the View List under Media, click Releases.
2. In the Releases explorer, click the release that you would like to configure.
3. Click the Events tab.
4. In the Publish Merge Module setting, select the Publish to repository option.
5. In the Repository Name setting, select the appropriate repository. All of the repositories to which you have access are listed in this setting.
6. In the Display Name setting, specify a name for the merge module that you are publishing to the repository. This name is displayed for the merge module in the Redistributables view.
7. In the Publisher setting, type your name.
8. In the Description setting, type a description of the merge module.

Whenever you build the selected release, InstallShield publishes the merge module to the specified repository.

Merge modules are built into an installation at build time. If you make a change to a repository merge module and then republish it to the repository, any project that has the old version of the repository merge module will be updated the next time that a release of the project’s installation is rebuilt.

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