Specifications

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Note: When specifying the file name, it is essential that the name not include any spaces,
otherwise, it will cause problems at the time of the launch of the customized client install package.
• Click on the "Create" button at the bottom of the screen.
Understanding InstallShield Tuner Options
This is where we do the actual customization of the installation package. There are many sections to go
through and within them, some also have a number of distinct sub-sections.
Prevalidation
This section contains the prevalidation process. This process doesn't need to be performed since we cannot
change the base Lotus Notes package provided by Lotus Software. An interesting fact is that the
prevalidation process generates a lot of warning and error messages. However, those do not have any
impact or incidence on the success of the construction of the customer installation package, nor the success
of the upgrade of the Lotus Notes clients
Organization
Sub chapter "Product Properties" allows to customize:
• Default install path of Lotus Notes client binaries
Note: In previous releases of Lotus Notes, files were installed in C:\Lotus\Notes, newer versions of
Lotus Notes are being installed to C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes by default.
• The company name for whom the custom installation package is being built.
Sub chapter "Features" allows to define if and how Lotus Notes client features are being installed. When
clicking on "Features", this brings up the Lotus Notes client feature tree structure Each feature can be
defined to be visible or invisible. Options are explained when selecting them.
Note: These features are only for the C++ based components, for Eclipse based components of the Lotus
Notes client, these are specified via the install.xml file which can be found in the \MakeInstall\Org850\deploy
directory.
System Configuration
this section is where it is possible to configure specific parameters for the Lotus Notes client through the
custom installation package. The list of sub-sections present in this section are shown below
Files and Folders
Allows additional files (others that those that come standard with the standard installation package) to be
added.
Important to understand:
• The file must exist and be complete (in terms of its content) at the time of the creation of the
custom installation package, as it is copied into an additional .cab file created at this time.
• if the file is installed somewhere else than in the path referenced by the predefined paths
(ProgramFilesFolder, SystemFolder or TempFolder), then the specific path needs to be provided.