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Chapter 8: Organizing Files for Your Installation
Defining Features
Use the Advertised setting in the Features view to specify whether advertisement should be allowed.
Available options for this setting are:
Table 8-2: Options that Are Available for the Advertisement Setting
Option Description
Allow Advertise End users have the ability to select the advertisement option for this feature in the
CustomSetup dialog. Although advertisement is allowed, it is not the default
option when the installation is run.
Favor Advertise The feature is advertised by default. End users can change the advertisement
option for a feature in the CustomSetup dialog.
Disallow Advertise Advertising is not allowed for this feature. End users cannot elect to have the
feature advertised in the CustomSetup dialog.
Disable Advertise if Not
Supported
When you allow feature advertisement, the feature is advertised, regardless of the mode in which the
installation is running, as long as no other factors prevent it from being advertised. In the Custom Setup
dialog, the end user can control which features are immediately installed and which are available later.
Advertisement usually requires support from the application. For example, your product’s spell checker
can be advertised. The application interface offers use of the spell checker through a menu command or
toolbar button. You must write to check the feature’s installation state and install it when the customer
clicks the Spell Check command or button.
Setting a Feature’s Remote Installation Setting
The Remote Installation setting for a feature determines whether the feature’s files are installed on the
target system or run from the source medium, such as a CD-ROM or network server. The default value
for a new feature is Favor Local, which means that the files in the selected feature are installed on the
target system.
Task To change the Remote Installation setting so that the feature’s files run only from the source medium:
1. In the View List under Organization, click Features.
2. Select the feature that you want to configure.
3. In the Remote Installation setting, select Favor Source.
Advertisement works only on systems with Internet Explorer 4.01 or later. If the
target system does not meet this criterion, advertising is not allowed. If the target
system can support advertisement, advertising is allowed.
Tip: Selecting Favor Parent gives a subfeature the same value as its parent feature.
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