Product Properties View

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This view gives you a way to specify the default path on the user’s computer into which the application will be installed. You can also specify the default organization name (i.e., your company’s name).

The following properties are associated with this view:

Default Destination Variable

This is the name of the variable that stores the Default Destination Path. If you change this variable, you could create errors during postvalidation. Click on the variable’s value to display a combo box that allows you to select a variable.

Generally, the variable used will be INSTALLDIR or INSTALLLOCATION (both author-created variables). However, another variable can appear as the value: TARGETDIR (a Windows Installer variable). If TARGETDIR is suggested, it is strongly recommended you contact the vendor who created the original MSI and ask what was used for the Default Destination Variable. While it is possible that it was TARGETDIR, it is also possible another variable was used and Tuner cannot identify this non-standard variable.

If the incorrect variable is set here, and/or if the Default Destination Path is changed, the installation may not function properly. If that happens, you can reset the information in this view by clicking on the Reset button when the Default Destination Variable is selected.

More information can be found in the Windows Installer Help.

Default Destination Path

This location, stored within the Default Destination Variable, is the path where the application will be installed on the target machine, unless overridden during installation from the Custom Setup dialog. Click on the path’s value to display a combo box of possible paths, or edit the path in the value field. It can be a hard-coded path, or it can be a Windows Installer folder property . Further levels can be separated with a backslash—for example, ProgramFilesFolder\MyApp\Bin.

To comply with Windows logo requirements, the application must default to a subfolder of ProgramFilesFolder, which can vary depending on the system’s locale and user settings. If ProgramFilesFolder\ProductName, is specified as the default value for the Destination Folder property, then this product’s files will always be installed to the logo-compliant location.

Company Name

This is the name the installation suggests for your organization during setup. If it is not set, the installer will automatically set it during installation using values from the registry. Once the value has been entered for the name of the organization, the COMPANYNAME property can be seen in the Setup Properties View.