Assemblies View

InstallShield 11 Universal

Available in InstallShield Universal Premier Only

The Assemblies view in Organization lists all of the assemblies, both RPM and non-RPM, that are currently in all of your Assembly Gallery locations for you to select to reference in your project. You can also add new assembly references to your project in this view to reference an assembly that has not yet been built or is not in the Assembly Gallery. When the assembly project has been built (and is located in the Assembly Gallery), the product project that references it can then be built.

Note

For dependencies on non-RPM assemblies to be checked and maintained in an RPM Installer project, the RPM Integration Enabled property of the non-RPM assembly's Releases/Platform Support/Linux Platform Support must have been set to "True."

An assembly is a self-contained, reusable, versionable, self-describing set of managed changes to a target system. Universal Installer, RPM Installer, and Universal Dynamic Suite Installer project types can be built as an assembly. The assembly can then be associated with any other Universal Installer, RPM Installer, or Dynamic Suite project. If you associate the assembly with a feature (Universal Installer projects only), the assembly is only installed/referenced if the end user chooses to install that feature at run time. If you associate the assembly with the product, it will always be installed/referenced. Assemblies can also reference (require) other assemblies.

Everything you can do in the Assemblies view can also be done in the Installation Design view except in RPM Installer projects.

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