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Installer Projects

    The Installer Wizard manages a particular install via a project file. You must select or create a new project before continuing with the wizard. The main purpose of the project files is to save the values entered in the wizard so you can return later without having to reenter all the values.

    Create New Installer Project

    To create a new installer project, simply enter the name of the project and click the Next button. The name must be a valid directory name as the installer will create a directory by combining the Location and Name fields. For example, using the image below, the Name is MyApp and the location is the default location of C:\{UserDirectory}\Documents\ETO Installer Projects. As a result, a directory is created, c:\{UserDirectory}\Documents\ETO Installer Projects\MyApp. Note that you would not actually see {UserDirectory}, The actual Location field is determined by the location of the User Directories on the particular machine.

    The Inventor ETO Install Builder Wizard will use this directory to store all installer related files. The user is also free to put any files in this directory specific for their needs. However, as you will see later, there will be a subdirectory created called Output. The user should never put any files in this directory as it is used for generated files created by the Install Wizard and is deleted on each new build of the installer.

    Load Existing Installer Project

    The other option on the first page of the Wizard is to Load Existing Installer Project. Selecting this option will allow you to select the Select Project File… Button.

    After selecting the button you will be prompted to choose the Project file created in a previous session of the Installer Wizard. After selecting the project file, you can then modify selections and create installers using previously saved data.