Only features containing the installfeature property required="false" in the Notes install kit's install manifest (install.xml) are available for removal or other install options. These include the Composite Applications Editor, Connections (Activities), Feed Reader, embedded IBM® Sametime®, and (for single user install) Domino® Designer and Domino Administrator clients. All other supplied features must remain as supplied in the install kit.

Note: Domino Designer and Domino Administrator require the additional step of using the MSI tuner to create a transform file (.mst) that disables their install completely. This transform file must be used during install or upgrade.

For Notes installation of supplied Eclipse features, you can do any of the following:

• 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 supplied feature from install consideration. You can comment or even delete an installfeature block.

When you open the Notes install.xml file in a Web browser or XML editor, it opens in expanded form and the hierarchy is apparent. To simplify display, collapse the feature hierarchy so that only the installfeature elements are visible. Each installfeature element represents an installable feature.

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.

The following sample is an install.xml snippet (specifically an installfeature element). For supplied features such as the Composite Application Editor, the attributes you can edit are "default," "required," and "show" which are seen in the installfeature element snippet:

+ <installfeature default="false" description="%Editors.description"id="Editors" name="%Editors.name" required="false" show="true"version="8.5.3.20121115.0230">

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 previous 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 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 Notes feature installation panel. If set to true, the installfeature name is visible. If set to false, the installfeature name is not visible.

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 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

Related tasks
Customizing Notes install for features and plug-ins on Windows and Mac
Adding and removing components from the Notes install kit using UpdateSiteMgr

Related reference
Reducing Notes install kit size
Validating your customized Notes install kit

Related information
Provisioning manifest DTD

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