• Display a feature name and enable the user to select or deselect the option. The feature name appears on the feature installation panel as selected, and the user can select or deselect it.
• Display a feature name and force its installation. The feature name appears on the feature installation panel and user cannot deselect it.
• Prevent a feature name from appearing on the features installation panel. Depending on how attributes are set in the install manifest this can either force the feature to be installed or prevent the feature from being installed.
• Remove a feature from install consideration. You can comment or even delete a feature block.

You can edit the install manifest using an XML editor or text editor but be sure to validate the XML before moving to the next step in the customization process.

A sample of INSTALL.XML text is shown below. For supplied features such as the Composite Application Editor and IBM® Lotus® Productivity Tools, the attributes you can edit are "default," "required," and "show."

<installfeature default="false" id="Editors" name="IBM Productivity Tools" required="false" show="true" version=".20070312.0245">
Note Do not edit any "installfeature" element whose "required" attribute is set to "true."

• default -- Specifies whether the "installfeature" name is shown selected for installation. If set to true, the "installfeature" name is selected on the feature installation panel. If set to false, the "installfeature" name is not selected on the feature installation panel.

  Note The "default" attribute is ignored when re-running the installer and is ignored on upgrade unless the "installfeature" did not exist in the previously installed offering. This allows the installer to display the state (installed or not installed) of the "installfeature" that was available in the previously installer offering.

• required -- Specifies whether the "installfeature" must be installed. If set to true, the "installfeature" is installed. If set to false, and show is set to true, the "installfeature" name appears on the Lotus Notes feature installation panel and the user can select the option.

  The "required" attribute overrides the "default" attribute.

• show -- Specifies whether the "installfeature" appears on the Lotus Notes feature installation panel. If set to true, the "installfeature" name is visible. If set to false, the "installfeature" name is not visible.

See the Expeditor release 6.1.1 help as it becomes available.

Example: Display a feature on the features installation panel and enable the user to select or deselect the feature

To display an "installfeature" name and enable the user to select or deselect it during Lotus Notes install, set the following values:

• default -- false
• required -- false
• show -- true

To display an "installfeature" name and force its installation, set the following values:

• default -- true
• required -- true
• show -- true

To prevent an "installfeature" name from appearing on the features installation panel and force its installation, set the following values:

• default -- true
• required -- true
• show -- false

To prevent an "installfeature" name from appearing on the features installation panel and prevent its installation, either delete that feature block, comment its "installfeature" element in the INSTALL.XML file, or set the following values:

• default -- false
• required -- false
• show -- false

Removing a feature from the installer

You can remove an "installfeature" block by deleting it from the install manifest and then running a tool to generate a update site zip file consisting of only the features and associated plug-ins represented in the install manifest. This helps minimize the size of the Lotus Notes install media kit and conserves disk space on the target Lotus Notes client.

See also

Customizing the Notes install manifest to add or modify access to Eclipse features
Customizing the installer process

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