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Configuring Permissions for Files and Folders
Chapter 8: Organizing Files for Your Installation
Including Redistributables in Your Installation
InstallShield lets you configure settings for securing files and folders for end users who run your product
in a locked-down environment. You can assign permissions for a file or folder to specific groups and
users. For example, you may assign Read, Write, and Delete permissions for a particular file to the
Administrators group, but only Read permissions for all of the users in a different group.
Task To configure the permissions for a file or folder:
1. In the View List under Specify Application Data, click Files.
2. For a file: In the Destination computer’s files pane, right-click the file and then click
Properties. The Properties dialog box opens.
For a folder: In the Destination computer’s folders pane, right-click the folder and then click
Properties. The Properties dialog box opens.
3. Click the Permissions button. The Permissions dialog box opens.
4. Add, modify, and remove permissions entries as needed. For more information, see Permissions
Dialog Boxes for Files and Directories.
Depending on what is selected for the Locked-Down Permissions setting in the General Information
view of your project, InstallShield adds permissions data to either the ISLockPermissions table or the
LockPermissions table. To learn more, see Securing Files, Folders, and Registry Keys in a Locked-
Down Environment.
Including Redistributables in Your Installation
InstallShield includes many commonly used third-party redistributables, making it easy to add support
for popular technologies such as Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access, and MDAC to your installation.
When you add redistributables to your project, the redistributables, plus all of the associated
dependencies, are added to your installation. This simplifies the process of packaging redistributables
and ensures consistency for internal or external use.
The Redistributables view contains all of the InstallShield prerequisites, merge modules, and objects
that are included with InstallShield.
InstallShield Prerequisites
An InstallShield prerequisite is an installation for a product or technology framework that is required by
your product. You can add any of the existing InstallShield prerequisites to your installation projects.
Including InstallShield prerequisites in your project enables you to chain multiple installations together,
bypassing the Windows Installer limitation that permits only one Execute sequence to be run at a time.
The Setup.exe setup launcher serves as a bootstrap application that manages the chaining.
Edition: InstallShield Premier Edition and InstallShield Professional Edition include the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor, a
tool that enables you to define custom InstallShield prerequisites and to edit settings for any existing InstallShield
prerequisites.
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