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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.
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