Create a Response Transform Panel

InstallShield 2019 » Open Transform Wizard

In this panel, you can specify that you want to create a response transform.

Panel Options

Create a Response Transform Panel Options

Option

Description

Create response transform

If you want to create a response transform, select this check box.

If you select this option, the user interface elements of the installation are executed when you click Finish. No file transfer takes place, and no changes to your machine occur. Complete this simulated installation, customizing the options available in each panel of the installation wizard as needed. When you reach the end of the installation sequence and click Install, the simulated installation exits. InstallShield saves all of the changes that you made during the simulated installation as default installation values in the response transform.

Command line properties (optional)

If you are using a response transform, you can specify additional command-line properties (in property name/value pairs separated by semicolons) to pass to the response transform. These must be public properties, and they control only how the dialog boxes are displayed during creation of the response transform. They are not persisted outside of the user interface sequence during creation. For example, you can pass the property/value pair ARPHELPTELEPHONE=1-111-111-1111 to set the value of the Help Telephone field of Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.

You might pass a property/value pair during the creation of a response transform to display all dialog boxes during an installation that may not be displayed based on your system configuration (for example, to show Windows 9x–only dialog boxes on a Windows NT platform). You can then make appropriate responses and have them included in your transform.

Click Finish to exit the Open Transform Wizard and create your transform project. The transforms are applied to the .msi file specified in the Transform Information panel, and the transform project (.mst file) opens in Direct MST mode in InstallShield.

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