features

Advanced features distinguish InstallShield MultiPlatform from its competition. From simple installations that take a few minutes to create, to sophisticated product deployment and lifecycle management, MultiPlatform has the perfect solution for your needs.

Rapid Installation Development


NEW! Quick Start Wizard To get you get started as quickly as possible, we’ve created an advanced wizard that:
Asks you simple questions about the product you are installing
Makes advanced decisions for you based on InstallShield best practices
Explains key concepts to help you answer questions
Unlike most wizards that merely present an alternative interface to functionality, our quick start wizard acts as a consultant, asking simple questions and providing helpful suggestions where needed.

ENHANCED! Visual Wizard Panel Editing Choose from 22 standard panels such as Text Display, Destination Directory, and Install Preview to easily customize your installation without having to write custom code.

NEW! Customizable User Input Panel
The new user input panel allows you to create custom dialogs without coding. With the input panel, you can:
Use text and choice fields to collect one or more pieces of information from the user
Display choice fields as listboxes, radio buttons, check lists, or dropdowns
Validate user input with predefined or custom validators
Preview the custom panel
User input panels can be used in conjunction with User Input Conditions to execute only certain panels, actions, and sequences based on a user’s response to a question.

ENHANCED! High Productivity IDE InstallShield MultiPlatform has been carefully designed to simplify and manage the complexities of deploying software to multiple platforms. It provides a clean, easy-to-understand view of product definitions, build-configuration properties, and enhanced wizard panel sequence views. Improved, context-sensitive help is always available to answer your questions.

Extensive Platform Coverage

NEW! Complete HP-UX Platform Support MultiPlatform now provides IDE and target environment support for HP-UX versions 10.20, 11.0, 11.i / 11.11, with full native support for Software Distributor (SD).


ENHANCED! Native Platform Integration With its Platform Pack technology, InstallShield MultiPlatform provides deep native integration with Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, OS/2, and OS/400. This gives you much more than the ability to copy files to these systems. Platform Packs implement a range of platform-specific functionality ranging from setting file attributes and times to reading and updating native package databases.

NEW! Windows NT/2000 Services InstallShield MultiPlatform now provides extensive support for Windows NT services. Using product or wizard actions, you can:
Install new NT/2000 services
Control the state of existing services (e.g. stop, start, pause, continue, interrogate, and more!)
Validate user input with predefined or custom validators
Remove NT/2000 services
The Windows Service Create action is robust enough to handle any level of service-create detail. In addition, two new conditions have been added that allow you to add conditional logic based on:
Whether or not a Windows NT service exists
The status of a Windows NT condition


ENHANCED! Environment Variables Improved support for environment variables gives you greater control for tasks like automatically locating and modifying a platform-specific file or setting a specific OS path.

ENHANCED! Native Installation Model Compatibility InstallShield MultiPlatform is designed for 100% compatibility with platform-specific, native installation models such as Solaris Packages, HP-UX SD, Linux RPM files, or OS/400 Packaged Products.

Enterprise Workgroup Features

ENHANCED! Integrated Bean Gallery