When you install InfoMaker, you can install only what you need to query a database and create reports in the database, or you can install optional painters that enable you to work more fully with data.
The InfoMaker install offers three options: Compact, Typical, and Custom/Full.
Compact This option installs InfoMaker as a reporting tool only. No optional painters are installed. You cannot open forms in the InfoMaker tutorial library; those forms require use of the optional painters that are installed with the Typical or Custom/Full option.
Typical This option adds three additional painters so that you can work with data more fully:
Database painter for creating and modifying tables
Form painter for creating and modifying data in a database
Data Pipeline painter for copying data from one database to another
This option also installs the following features that are not included in the Compact install:
JDBC database interface
InfoMaker tutorial
EAS Demo database
Compiled HTML Help
Ability to save reports to PDF using the XSL-FO method (the distill method is provided in the Compact install)
Custom/Full This option enables you to choose what you install. You can install the optional painters as well as the PB DataDirect ODBC interfaces and OLE DB data providers, the DataWindow plug-in, and the DataWindow Web control for ActiveX, which are not included in the Compact or Typical installs.
If you want to do the InfoMaker tutorial or use the sample library, you must install ASA 9.0.2 or later if it is not already installed on your computer. When you install InfoMaker, the setup program creates an ODBC data source for the demo database. If ASA is not installed on your system when you install InfoMaker, setup does not install the demo database, sample library, or tutorial files.
The InfoMaker setup program installs InfoMaker in default drives and directories unless you specify otherwise. If a directory you specify does not exist, setup creates it.
To install InfoMaker:
On the Choose Destination Location page, click Next to accept the destination folder path shown, or click Browse and select a different path, click OK, then click Next.
On the Choose Destination Location For Shared Files page, click Next to accept the destination folder path shown, or browse to select the Sybase\Shared directory.
On the Setup Type page, select Typical, Compact, or Custom/Full install, and click Next.
For information on what to select, see “What to install”.
If you selected Custom/Full, the Select Components page displays; select the components you want to install and click Next to continue.
To install optional painters, select the Database Write option.
You can expand the tree view to select or clear subcomponents of top-level components, and click Select All or Unselect All to select or clear all the check boxes.
On the Select Program Folder page, select the program folder to which program icons will be added or specify a new one, and click Next.
On the Start Copying Files page, review your settings, then click Next to begin installing files or Back to change your selections.
On the InstallShield Wizard Complete page, select the check box if you want to read the Readme file, and click Finish to return to the common setup program.
You must close the Readme file to continue.
