Incorporate NI Batch Installer Builder into the general application builder suite.
This tool has a lot of potential for end-user use if it is incorporated into the app builder API and suite. Batch installers can be used for much more than just installing selected sets of NI software (Which this tool is obviously designed specifically to do). It could be used for creating installers of multiple, cross-project user installers comprising a complete system. To do this though, the current batch installer builder needs to be made more generic to be of use.
Specifically:
- Add configuration options to control or disable license dialogs when non-NI provided installers are added
- Add configuration options to control or disable the user/company license dialogs when non-NI provided installers are added
- Add configuration options to control or disable the check for NI updates dialogs when non-NI provided installers are added
- Add batch installer version properties to allow end users to create system versions
- Add support for 3rd party installer inclusion (Dup from another idea, but I had to repeat it here)
Including this in the app builder would be even better since that should allow project based configuration and control of the batch configurations and potentially even programmatic control.
