Working with the Packager User Interface › Patch Product Creation Wizard

Patch Product Creation Wizard

The patch product creation wizard lets you create patches to update existing PIF products. A patch for the PIF product is created, built, distributed, and installed like a "normal" PIF product.

To create a PIF patch product with the patch product creation wizard, proceed as follows:

1. Right-click a product in the Project pane, and select New patch from the context menu.

   The Create a new patch product wizard launches and displays the Patch name page.

2. Enter information about the patch name and version in the appropriate fields, and click Next.

   Note: The Patch name page also provides information about the product name and version for which you are creating a patch.

   The Select patch product generation page appears.

3. Click New patch.

   The Source folder page appears.

4. Enter the location and name of the directory that contains all changed files that are part of the patch product. Click Next.

   The Replaced patches page appears.

5. Enter names of all previously assigned patches that this patch will replace. Click Next.

   Note: Use a comma (,) to separate the names.

   The Summary page appears.

6. Click Create patch to create the patch for the product.

   The PIF patch product appears in the Project pane of the Packager GUI, and you can modify it like any other "normal" PIF product listed in the Project pane.

Note: Some tabs in the Packager GUI will be grayed out, because they do not apply to PIF patch products.