InstallShield 2012 Express Edition User Guide - Knowledge Base ...

Chapter 2: Getting Started
Working with the InstallShield Interface
Displaying the View List
Task To see the View List in the InstallShield interface:
1. Click the Installation Designer tab at the top of the InstallShield interface.
2. Do one of the following to display the View List:
• On the View menu, click View List. The View List appears on the left side of the InstallShield
interface.
• Click the toolbar’s View List button.
• Press F4 to hide or show the View List.
Opening Views in the InstallShield User Interface
The first step in many InstallShield procedures is to open a particular view in the Installation
Development Environment (IDE).
Task To open a view:
1. Click the Installation Designer tab. The View List is displayed along the left side of the IDE. If
the View List is not displayed, see Displaying the View List.
2. In the View List, select the view you want to open. To see all available views, expand the View List
folders.
Working with the Group Box Area in Various Views
A number of views in InstallShield have a group box area that lets you organize the rows in the view. The
views that contain this group box support multiple levels of grouping simply by dragging the column
headers and dropping them onto the group box (the area that says, “Drag a column header here to group
that column”). InstallShield displays the rows in the view hierarchically according to column
arrangement in the group box. An example of a view that contains the group box is the Redistributables
view.
Note the following tips for working with the group box:
• To move a column header to the group box area, drag the column header and drop it onto the group
box.
• To copy a column header onto the group box area, press CTRL while dragging the column header
and dropping it onto the group box. When you do this, the column header is displayed as a column
header, and in the group box.
• When you are dropping group box headers onto the group box area, you can drop them onto other
column headers. This enables you to organize rows hierarchically.
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