Project references

[SITL]

Dear Francesco,
Thanks for all the help.
I have a project by name "XYZProduct" in D:\Installer\XYZProduct

It's working properly.

I have taken backup ( copied the folder XYZProduct & renamed as XYZProduct_date )
D:\Installer\Backup\XYZProduct_date1
D:\Installer\Backup\XYZProduct_date2
D:\Installer\Backup\XYZProduct_date3
D:\Installer\Backup\XYZProduct_date4 etc.,

Next i open D:\Installer\XYZProduct and changed Application runtime requirements.
(i uncheck two of the selected items )
as a result all the backup projects also got changed.
I mean my above changes to D:\Installer\XYZProduct are visible in
all the projects in D:\Installer\Backup\ folder

How do i restrict my changes to current project only ?
Correct me if i'm wrong.
Appreciate your comments.
Regards
SITL

[FrancescoT]

Dear SITL,

the simplest way to make a copy of an existing project, it's to save the original project with the "save Project As" command from the IA file menu.

When you create a copy of an existing project, you must consider that the copied project (because it's the exact copy of the original one) still maintains the same identical settings of the original project.

For example; if project "A" uses a main script file named "A script", project B (which is the copy of project A) continues to use the same identical main script file.

To make your "project copy" totally independent from the source project, you also have to explicitly save the main script file under the new project directory as well.

To do this and once you saved the "copy of your project" into a different directory; from IA IDE switch to MSI code view, right click your main script file listed in the left tree pane (the "Script" node) and then select "Save Script file as...".

Hope this helps you.

Regards