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Specifying Packages Filling Out the Specification Worksheet Specifying Packages You now have everything you need to specify each package on your package list. In this section you will use the worksheet called "Enterprise Deployment Planning Sheet #2: CS4 Deployment Package Specification". Make one copy for each package on your package list. The rest of this section explains how to fill out each field in the worksheet. Have your package list (worksheet #1) in front of you as you fill out these package specifications. Also refer to the deployment configuration you chose on worksheet #3. Filling Out the Specification Worksheet PACKAGE NAME This is where you put the package name from your package list. It is the name that will be applied to the folder that the toolkit creates when it saves your package. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION Write a brief but useful description here. This is not used by the toolkit; it is merely for your own bookkeeping use. CS4 PRODUCT / PLATFORM PURCHASED Record the name of the product from the PRODUCT column on your package list. SERIAL NUMBER This is the serial number you received when you purchased your product. The toolkit only accepts volume serial numbers. USER GROUP(S) Record the names of the user group or groups that will be served by this package. This is a bookkeeping detail for you; the toolkit will not request this information. INSTALLATION LANGUAGE This value is determined by your serial number. The toolkit sets this value for you, but you may want to make a note of it when you create your packages. MEDIA FILES LOCATION The toolkit asks you for this early on in package creation. It is the name of the product install folder for the product you are packaging. If you have not yet downloaded the product ESD, you do not yet know this path; however, you will have done the download by the time you invoke the toolkit and can come back and fill in this field before you create the package. Refer to "Choosing a Deployment Configuration" starting on page 14 for how this field gets used in the package. INSTALLATION LOCATION This is the drive and path of the location at which you want the applications in this package to be installed. If the path does not exist, the installer will create it for you. The toolkit will offer you the standard application location as a default choice: the default drive is the system drive; the default path is \Program Files on Windows and /Applications on the Mac. If you Document Version 1.0 Sep 2009 24

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Specifying Packages
Filling Out the Specification Worksheet
Document Version 1.0
Sep 2009
24
Specifying Packages
You now have everything you need to specify each package on your package list. In this section you will
use the worksheet called “Enterprise Deployment Planning Sheet #2: CS4 Deployment Package
Specification”. Make one copy for each package on your package list. The rest of this section explains how
to fill out each field in the worksheet.
Have your package list (worksheet #1) in front of you as you fill out these package specifications. Also refer
to the deployment configuration you chose on worksheet #3.
Filling Out the Specification Worksheet
PACKAGE NAME
This is where you put the package name from your package list. It is the name that will be applied to the
folder that the toolkit creates when it saves your package.
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
Write a brief but useful description here. This is not used by the toolkit; it is merely for your own
bookkeeping use.
CS
4
PRODUCT
/
PLATFORM PURCHASED
Record the name of the product from the
PRODUCT
column on your package list.
SERIAL NUMBER
This is the serial number you received when you purchased your product. The toolkit only accepts volume
serial numbers.
USER GROUP
(
S
)
Record the names of the user group or groups that will be served by this package. This is a bookkeeping
detail for you; the toolkit will not request this information.
INSTALLATION LANGUAGE
This value is determined by your serial number. The toolkit sets this value for you, but you may want to
make a note of it when you create your packages.
MEDIA FILES LOCATION
The toolkit asks you for this early on in package creation. It is the name of the product install folder for the
product you are packaging. If you have not yet downloaded the product ESD, you do not yet know this
path; however, you will have done the download by the time you invoke the toolkit and can come back
and fill in this field before you create the package.
Refer to
"Choosing a Deployment Configuration" starting on page 14
for how this field gets used in the
package.
INSTALLATION LOCATION
This is the drive and path of the location at which you want the applications in this package to be installed.
If the path does not exist, the installer will create it for you.
The toolkit will offer you the standard application location as a default choice: the default drive is the
system drive; the default path is
\Program Files
on Windows and
/Applications
on the Mac. If you