Features View

AdminStudio 2023 | 25.0 | Tuner

This view allows you to change Feature properties to best suit your situation.

Features are the building blocks of an installation from an end user’s perspective. They represent a specific capability of the product, such as the help files or a part of a product suite that can be installed or uninstalled based on the end user’s selections. Features can be composed of subfeatures, which in turn can be composed of further subfeatures. Depending on the visibility of the “parent” feature, end users can select which portions of a feature to install in the Custom Setup dialog.

Each feature and subfeature has properties that can be modified within Tuner. These include a description of each feature (as it appears in the Custom Setup dialog box), its visibility, and its initial state . Tuner allows you to change these feature properties to best suit your situation. For example, you may want to prevent a specific application within a suite from being installed in a particular transform file. By changing its initial state and visibility, you can prevent your end user from ever seeing this feature during installation.

The Features View contains the following options:

Features View Options

Options

Description

This description will be displayed when this feature is clicked in the Custom Setup dialog box during installation.

Visible

Specifies how the feature will be presented to the end user during installation in the Custom Setup dialog. The following options are available:

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Visible and Collapsed—This feature will be displayed in the Custom Setup dialog with its subfeatures collapsed by default.

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Visible and Expanded—This feature will be displayed in the Custom Setup dialog with its subfeatures expanded by default.

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Not Visible—This feature will not be displayed to the end user in the Custom Setup dialog.

Although an end user obviously cannot select or deselect an invisible feature, this property does not affect whether a feature is installed. In other words, a feature is not automatically installed if it is invisible; it just cannot be deselected if it would otherwise be installed, or selected if it should not be installed.

Initial State

Provide the initial state for the feature. The end user can override this from the Custom Setup dialog. Your options are:

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The feature is not installed—By default, the feature will not be installed during setup.

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The feature is installed on the local drive—By default, the feature will be installed on the local drive during setup.

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The feature is run from source, CD, or network—By default, the feature will be run from the source, whether it be from the installation CD or from the network.

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The feature is advertised—By default, the feature will be advertised, but not installed. Essentially, this is an on-demand option; a shortcut will be created during setup, and if the shortcut is clicked, the feature will then be installed from the source. This ensures features that may be unnecessary are not installed until they are needed, if ever.