The Folder Properties Dialog

This dialog allows you to specify general folder settings.

Name

Target Name

This field contains the name that will be set for the folder when it is installed. The target name will override the name of the folder on your disk, allowing you to specify a custom name for the folder.

Source Name

When placing the installation files next to the MSI, Advanced Installer will create a folder structure which will contain the files. The name of a folder in this structure can be set in the "Source Name" field. This allows you to add to the project a folder with a custom name and set a more user-friendly name for it in the installation package.

Component

Create folder on target machine

This checkbox gives you the possibility to create or delete the component associated with the selected folder. If a component for the folder exists, the checkbox is checked. The following actions are allowed:

• un-check it to delete the component of the folder
• check it to create a component for the folder

In some cases the component of the folder cannot be removed, therefore the checkbox is disabled and selected.

The Folder Name is localizable and pseudoformatted.

Install folder content into the parent folder

If this option is enabled, the folder content will be installed into its parent folder.

This option is useful if you want to have more files (or other resources) with the same name that will be installed in the same folder under different installation scenarios or in different build configurations. The decision on which file will be used can be made at build time or at install time.

At build time, the content of the folder that is not needed can be excluded from the Organization page by moving its components to a new feature and exclude it from a build. To decide at install time which files will be installed you must exclusive condition the components in the Organization page.

When using this option and resources with the same name can be found in the parent folder, or in other sibling folders that use this option there must be specified some conditions in order to decide which resources will be actually used. Component conditions and feature exclusion from build are the mechanism to do that.

Removal

You can specify the folder to be removed upon install or uninstall from the Folder Removal Dialog.

Permissions

Clicking on the "Permissions" tab will allow you to set the folder's Permissions.