Output Window

AdminStudio 2023 | 25.0 | Tuner

When you prevalidate the base Windows Installer package, postvalidate the package and your transform, or package the transform and base package, the Output Window appears at the bottom of the interface. It consists of three tabs:

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Output—Lists the Errors (), Warnings (), and Informational Messages () that are generated during prevalidation, postvalidation, and packaging.

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Validation—Upon completion of the pre- or postvalidation, this tab is automatically selected, and all of the Errors, Warnings, and Info messages that were generated are listed in table format. Each table row lists an icon to indicate whether it is an Error (), a Warning (), or an Informational Message (), the name of the ICE that generated it, and a brief description of what caused it to occur.

If a row is grayed out, it indicates that the table cannot be edited in the Direct Editor (perhaps because it is in an external package). If a row is active, you can double-click on it to open that row’s associated table. The Direct Editor is launched and the table and/or table cells that are causing the problem are highlighted in red. You can then use the Direct Editor to edit values in the MSI tables of the base Windows Installer package and store them in your transform.

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Packaging—Displays packaging/distribution information, and displays a summary of the files copied. You can copy these results to the clipboard by right-clicking and selecting Copy.

The Output Window can be toggled from the View menu.