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Chapter 16: Building, Testing, and Distributing Installations Testing and Running Installations Testing and Running Installations Before distributing your installation, you should test run it to ensure you discover any issues rather than your customers. InstallShield enables you to test the end-user dialogs (without copying any files to the target system) and run the entire installation including transferring files. Testing and Running Installations Testing your release is a necessary step in the installation development process. You can test your release in one of two ways: • Run your installation—This option executes your installation exactly as it would on an end user’s machine. All files are transferred, shortcuts and registry entries are made, and the end-user interface is displayed. Although you can run this type of test from the InstallShield interface, it is also a good idea to test your installation on several clean machines before you release it to the public. • Test your installation—When you test your installation, only the end-user interface elements are executed. No file transfer takes place and no changes to your machine occur. The only exception to this rule is if you have custom actions in your installation. All custom actions execute during this test. Task To test or run an installation: 1. In the View List under Prepare for Release, click Releases. 2. In the Builds explorer, click the release that you want to test or run. 3. Click the Run button or the Test User Interface button on the toolbar. Running an Installation in Silent Mode If you do not want to have the Setup.exe progress bar displayed when it launches, you can use the /s command-line parameter. For example, if you enter Setup.exe /s, Setup.exe launches, but the user interface is not displayed. If you want the .msi package to run silently as well, you need to pass the /qn command-line parameter through Setup.exe using the /v parameter—for example: Setup.exe /s /v/qn Conditional Installations InstallShield provides the capability to make your installation conditional based on several criteria. This can be accomplished using the Requirements view. If the installation is run on a machine that does not meet the specified conditions, the installation exits and your application is not installed. 316 ISE-1800-UG01 InstallShield 2012 Express Edition User Guide
Distributing Installations Chapter 16: Building, Testing, and Distributing Installations Distributing Installations Once you have created your installation, you may need to distribute it to a specified location. This location can be a network drive, a CD, a different location on a local drive, or an FTP site. When you distribute your installation, the disk image that was created when you built your installation is copied to the location that you specify. Distributing Releases to a Folder or FTP Site Automatically When your release is built and tested, the only remaining task is to distribute it to the appropriate location. You can manually copy your release to the appropriate location, or you can use the Events tab in the Releases view to configure the release so that InstallShield automatically copies the release to the appropriate location—a local or network location, or an FTP site. Task To configure InstallShield to automatically distribute your release to a particular location: 1. In the View List under Prepare for Release, click Releases. 2. In the Releases explorer, select the release that you want to configure. 3. Click the Events tab. 4. Configure the settings as appropriate. To learn more about the settings on the Events tab, see Events Tab. Note: If your installation consists of only one disk, the contents of the Disk1 folder are copied to the release location, but not the folder itself. If your installation spans across multiple disks, the folders and their contents are copied to the release location. If you want the build engine to copy your release to the specified location after every build, select Yes for the Distribute After Build setting. InstallShield 2012 Express Edition User Guide ISE-1800-UG01 317
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