Build Settings Page
AdminStudio 2022 | 23.0 | Citrix Assistant
On the Build Settings page, you can perform the following tasks:
| • | Selecting Releases to Build |
| • | Digitally Signing a Citrix Profile |
| • | Including Additional Windows Installer Packages in a Citrix Profile |
| • | Enabling Citrix Profile Building When in Direct Edit Mode |
| • | Building a Citrix Profile |
You select the releases that you want to build a Citrix profile for on the Releases tree of the Build Settings page. By selecting a release, you are specifying that whenever that particular release is built, a Citrix profile will also be built.
Note:If you are editing a Windows Installer package (Direct Edit Mode) or transform file (Direct MST Mode), the Releases tree on the Build Settings page is not displayed.
About Building Releases
When you select a release on the Releases tree on the Build Settings page, you are specifying that whenever you build that particular release, you want to also build a Citrix profile for that release. However, the releases that are selected on the Build Settings page have no bearing upon which release is built when you click the Build button on the toolbar. When you initiate a build by clicking the Build button, a build is initiated for the active release—the release that was most recently selected on the Installation Designer Releases view. The output of that build would depend upon what releases were selected on the Build Settings page:
| • | Active release selected—A Windows Installer package and a Citrix profile would be built. |
| • | Active release not selected—Only a Windows Installer package would be built. |
Note:To build more than one release at a time, perform a batch build. See Performing Batch Builds.
About Creating Releases
You create and edit releases on the Releases view of the InstallShield Installation Designer. You cannot create or edit a release in the Citrix Assistant.
If no releases exist, or if you want to create a new release, open the Releases view of the Installation Designer. You must create at least one release before you will be able to build a Citrix profile. For more information, see Creating and Building Releases.
Digitally Signing a Citrix Profile
You can digitally sign your Citrix profile to assure end users that neither your installation nor the code within your application has been tampered with or altered since publication. When you digitally sign your application, end users are presented with a digital certificate when they run your installation.
To digitally sign a Citrix profile, select the Digitally sign Citrix profile option on the Build Settings page. When this option is selected, the Personal Information Exchange file (.pfx) field is enabled. A .pfx file is a standard file format for digital certificates. You then click Browse and select the .pfx file that you want to use to digitally sign this Citrix profile.
Including Additional Windows Installer Packages in a Citrix Profile
Sometimes a primary Windows Installer package uses other Windows Installer packages indirectly, such as driver files, client components, etc. In addition to being able to convert a single Windows Installer package to a virtual package, you can also use the Citrix Assistant to convert an application suite of multiple Windows Installer packages into one virtual package.
To include additional Windows Installer packages in a Citrix profile, set the Would you like to include additional MSI files in the virtual package? option to Yes, and then select the packages that you want to add.
| • | Click the New button ( ) and select the Windows Installer packages that you want to add. After each file is selected, it will be listed in the Windows Installer Files (.msi) list. |
| • | The order of the packages can be changed by selecting a package in the list and clicking the Move Up ( ) and Move Down ( ) buttons. |
| • | Use the Delete button ( ) to delete a package from the list. |
Enabling Citrix Profile Building When in Direct Edit Mode
When you are editing a Windows Installer (.msi) package or a transform (.mst) file in the Citrix Assistant, you are in Direct Edit Mode or Direct MST Mode. Because you are directly editing a Windows Installer package, you save your changes by selecting Save on the File menu. It not necessary to build the package, because it is already built. Therefore, InstallShield’s Build function is disabled.
However, you do need to run the build process to build a Citrix profile for this Windows Installer package. To enable the Build button to build the Citrix profile, select the Build Citrix Profile option on the Build Settings page.
After you select this option, the Build Citrix Profile selection on the Build menu becomes enabled, as does the Build toolbar button.
The method for building a Citrix profile depends upon what file you have open—an InstallShield project or a Windows Installer package. For detailed instructions, see one of the following topics:
| • | Building an App-V Package from Within an InstallShield Project |
| • | Building an App-V Package from Within a Windows Installer Package in InstallShield |