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About Dialogs
About Dialogs
You can access dialogs from:
! Dialogs page (in Installation Expert)
The dialogs on the Dialogs page are those in the Welcome Dialog Wizard, which
appear to the end user during a normal installation. Turn the dialogs on or off,
rearrange them, view conditions, and select the dialog theme. Click the Dialog Editor
button to display a dialog on the Dialogs tab.
! Dialogs tab (in Setup Editor)
Edit any dialogs in the installation and create new dialogs.
! Display Dialog actions (in MSI Script)
View dialog sequences as they are ordered in the installation sequences, as well as
the conditions under which the dialogs display. The conditions are within If
statements surrounding the Display Dialog actions. One Display Dialog action
represents an entire dialog sequence. Example: Welcome_Dialog in MSI Script
represents the entire Welcome Dialog Wizard, as shown on the Dialogs tab. In MSI
Script, if you double-click the script line for Welcome_Dialog, the first dialog of the
Welcome Dialog Wizard displays on the Dialogs tab.
The Dialogs tab shows all dialogs that are part of an .MSI. Any of these dialogs can
appear in different situations. Example: Maintenance Dialogs appear if the .MSI is
opened but the application is already installed.
Install Dialogs
The Install Dialogs appear during a normal installation, if no command line options are
used to run an advertisement, administrative, or silent installation.
Maintenance Dialogs
The Maintenance Dialogs appear when the installation is run in maintenance mode, that
is, when it is run after the application is installed. Maintenance mode lets the end user
change, repair, or uninstall the application.
Admin Dialogs
The Admin Dialogs appear during an administration installation. An administrative
installation copies a source image of the application to a network, for later installation by
end users.
To run an administrative installation, use the command line option /a. See About
Installation Modes on page 488.
Also see:
About Installation Sequences on page 490
Types of Actions in MSI Script Sequences on page 492
About the Wizard Dialogs
Some dialogs in the Welcome Dialog Wizard are probably familiar to you, because they
appear in almost all installations. Others only appear in certain situations:
! If you add them via the New Dialog Wizard (Creating a New Dialog on page 434).
! If you add certain features to your installation, corresponding dialogs are added.
Example: IIS dialogs are added if you add Web resources to the Web Files page.