Post-Installation Steps

If you would like to deploy certain configuration files automatically while doing an install, you can use the Post-Installation Steps with Capvidia installers. This tool allows you to automatically install certain options, reporting template files, and other custom files.

This guide is especially helpful for IT organizations.

Some good ideas for custom files to deploy:

• Options files

• License configuration files for floating licenses

• Custom reporting templates for Excel and more

• Config files for customizable tools like Engineering Checker

• CompareVidia profiles

Here’s a summary of how it works:

1. Create a patch folder. This folder contains all the custom files that you want to deploy.

2. Launch the installer from the command line, with certain command line options. This will run the installer and tell it to deploy the files in the patch folder when complete.

Step 1: Create the Patch Folder

The patch folder consists of 2 folders:

1. AppData: This is where many application configuration files are stored. For MBDVidia this is %AppData%\Capvidia\MBDVidia\.

2. CapvidiaApp: This is where the program is installed. For MBDVidia, for example, this is typically %ProgramFiles%\Capvidia\MBDVidia\.

You will build up a patch folder with these 2 folders at the root, and with the necessary configuration files in each folder, depending on where you want them deployed. Note that if you have folders inside of these 2 folders, they will be deployed as well.

Here is an example of a patch folder for download: patch.zip. It contains a license file for pointing to a license server, an options file, and an empty text file that will get deployed to the program installation directory

Step 2: Run the Installer

Open a command prompt and run the installer from the command line with the command line switch PatchPath=<path-to-patch-folder>. For example, if the latest MBDVidia installation and a patch folder called “patch” is on your Desktop, you can navigate to your Desktop in a command line prompt and simply type: MBDVidia_2024_2_2408_9 PatchPath="patch".

Or, if you prefer to use a batch file to keep things more organized, you can create a batch file with these contents:

On lines 1 and 2, make sure to insert the full path to your corresponding installer and patch folder.