Assembly Category Reference Action

InstallShield 11 Universal

The Assembly Category Reference wizard action is used in projects that include references to assemblies (in all other projects, it is ignored). It is automatically included in the Product Sequences group of the Sequences view in Universal Installer and Universal Dynamic Suite projects. When it is visited at run time, it triggers the display of the dialogs and execution of the actions within the Assembly Sequences categories in the Sequences view of all of the referenced assembly projects. The category of dialogs and actions that is visited depends upon the value of this action's Category Selection property. It is set to the category of the Assembly Sequences in the assembly project to trigger the display/execution of the dialogs/actions within that category.

For example, let's say that we have a built assembly project with the following dialog and action in its Assembly Sequences/Assembly PreSelection category:

• A Welcome dialog that introduces the assembly to the end user
• A Windows Registry Update action that registers the assembly in the target Windows machines' registry

In the Universal Installer or Universal Dynamic Suite project that references this assembly, you would insert an Assembly Category Reference action with its Category Selection property set to "Assembly Pre-Selection" at the point in the Sequences view that you want this dialog to display and this action to execute at run time.

See Also

Assembly Category Reference Action Properties