Prevalidation View
AdminStudio 2021 | 21.0 | Tuner
The Prevalidation view provides you a way to ensure the base Windows Installer package for your transform is valid. If it fails the validation test, then unexpected (and unwanted) results can occur during installation.
To begin the prevalidation process, select the evaluation file that you want to use for package validation (or click Browse to locate it), and click Start. By default, the file is evaluated using the full logo-compliant validation file, and all internal consistency evaluators (ICEs) are checked. If you just want to test specific ICEs, after you select the evaluation file, specify the ICE names, and separate them by semicolons if there is more than one.
You can toggle the information level of the displayed results by checking the Show Info Messages, Show Error Messages, and Show Warning Messages check boxes. If any errors are present, the Windows Installer Package is invalid. Warning messages highlight potential problems, but will not cause validation to fail. Informational messages display ongoing information during the validation process.
Viewing the Prevalidation Results
As each ICE is run, Errors, Warnings, and Info messages are generated, and are listed in the Output tab at the bottom of the interface.
Upon completion of the Prevalidation, the Validation 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.
This feature makes it very easy for you to use the Direct Editor to edit values in the MSI tables of the base Windows Installer package and store them in your transform. For more information, see Direct Editor.
Note:If no errors appear in the results (providing you are displaying errors), then the package is valid against the specific ICEs you specified, or against the entire evaluation file (if no ICEs were selected).
See Also
Evaluation Files and Internal Consistency Evaluators