Install in an install?

Friedrich,

I have an application meant for only administrators and that the install (and web
update) work perfectly. One of the requirements for this project is a child
application that displays a very limited amount of information to all employees,
its really a subset what the administrators see. It is its own stand-alone
application.

I can see two ways to install this:

1) Include it in the main install (which includes web updates), which when done,
does another install (or copies it to a common staging area). The advantage is
that I only need 2 install projects instead of 4.

2) Make a separate install (and web update) for this child application. Advantage
here is that it keeps my main install projects cleaner and easier to maintain.
But its two new install projects.

For now, since we are in the testing phase, I'm just using one install project, so
the they can test the employee application in a controlled environment. Later,
we'll roll it out for the employees.

Any advice?

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Russell B. Eggen
www.radfusion.com
Clarion developers: www.radfusion.com/devs.htm

Russ,

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> Any advice?
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What about a .sb7 project that can generate different outputs (e.g. a
"setup_admin.exe" and a "setup_child.exe")? The big advantage is that you
only have to maintain a single .sb7 project and you can compile both
applications.

Similar to this:

http://www.lindersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11315

http://www.lindersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11316

Friedrich

The admin setup is constant. The wildcard is the child setup. I'm thinking of a
SB project that installs an install. That install could then be copied to a
common folder and run from there for all workstations. The admin install produces
an administrator program that sets up all the data. The client does not have that
ability, it consumes the data the admin produces.

The admin runs on only one workstation (which could include the child). All other
workstations are child install only.

Of course this is the initial install (for both). After that, the web update is
quite sufficient for the updates for both programs. Don't yet need to build this,
just thinking ahead.

--
Russell B. Eggen
www.radfusion.com
Clarion developers: www.radfusion.com/devs.htm