Organize Your Setup

InstallShield 2020 Express Edition

The first step in building your project is to configure organizational information. This is accomplished through the views associated with the Organize Your Setup step in the View List.

General Information

The General Information view is where you enter information about your application, from your company’s name to the Web site your customers can access to learn more about your application.

To configure general information:

1.

In the View List under Organize Your Setup, click General Information.

2.

In the Product Name setting, enter:

Othello

3.

In the INSTALLDIR setting, enter:

[ProgramFilesFolder]Othello

4.

In the Subject setting, enter:

Othello

5.

In the Author setting, enter your name.

6.

In the Summary Information Stream Comments setting, enter:

This installation contains the logic and data required to install My Sample.

7.

Provide an icon for the package:

a.

Click the Display Icon setting, and then click the ellipsis button (...). The Change Icon dialog box opens.

b.

Click the Browse button.

c.

Navigate to the following directory:

InstallShield Program Files Folder\Samples\WindowsInstaller\Basic Installation Project\Data Files

d.

Select Othello.exe.

e.

Click the Open button. The Open dialog box closes, and InstallShield adds the path and name of the file that you selected to the File name setting.

f.

Click OK.

Features

The next step in organizing your installation is to create features. These features are used to install files and data at run time. InstallShield automatically creates one feature for you: Always Install. This is the only required feature for this project. However, you need to configure it.

To configure the Always Install feature:

1.

In the View List under Organize Your Setup, click Features.

2.

In the Description setting, enter:

The executable for the Othello game.

3.

In the Required setting, select Yes.

4.

In the Visible setting, select Not Visible.

5.

In the Advertised setting, select Disallow Advertise.

6.

In the Comments setting, enter:

This is the only feature.

Setup Types

In the Setup Types view, you can configure the setup types that the end user can choose from during installation. For this installation, you need only one installation type.

To configure the setup types:

1.

In the View List under Organize Your Setup, click Setup Types.

2.

Select the &Typical check box.

3.

Clear the Minimal and Custom check boxes.

Note:For this tutorial, you can ignore the remaining views in this step because they are irrelevant to this project. For your own projects, you may want to explore these views to see if you need to use them.

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