{"id":5074,"date":"2017-11-29T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2019-07-07T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:19:59","slug":"how-to-add-a-folder-tree-to-visual-installers-file-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/how-to-add-a-folder-tree-to-visual-installers-file-list\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a folder tree to Visual Installer&#8217;s file list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/using-the-add-tree-function-in-visual-installer\/\">Add tree<\/a> function in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/visual-installer.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visual Installer<\/a> you can add a folder structure including files to Visual Installer&#8217;s file list in an easy way. It is also possible to add a folder structure without files to Visual Installer&#8217;s file list with the same Add tree function. We will show below how to do this.<\/p>\n<p>1. Open the <strong>List<\/strong> menu and choose the <strong>Add &#8211; Add tree<\/strong> menu item.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-menu-list-add-tree.png\" alt=\"The 'Add tree' menu option\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>2. Select a folder in the <strong>Select folder<\/strong> dialog box and click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-dialogbox--add-tree--select-folder-2.png\" alt=\"The 'Select folder' dialog box\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>3. Click on the <strong>More options<\/strong> button in the <strong>Collect files from folders and sub folders<\/strong> dialog box that now appears.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-dialogbox--add-tree--collect-files--2.png\" alt=\"Collect files from folders and sub folders\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>4. Select the <strong>Only add folders<\/strong> option in the <strong>More options<\/strong> dialog box that now is shown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-dialogbox--add-tree--more-options.png\" alt=\"The 'More options' dialog box\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>5. Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to close the dialog box. The text in the previous opened dialog box will be updated to:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-dialogbox--add-tree--collect-folders--2.png\" alt=\"Collect folders from folders and sub folders\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>6. Now click on the <strong>Add folders<\/strong> button to start collecting folder. All folders and sub folders in the selected folder (in step 2) will be added to Visual Installer&#8217;s file list. The number of collected folders will be displayed after the <strong>No. files<\/strong> field name in the dialog box.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-dialogbox--add-tree--collect-folders--ready.png\" alt=\"Ready!\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>7. Click the <strong>Close<\/strong> button in the dialog box to return to the file list.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-editor-tab-filelist--add-tree-example-2--cropped.png\" alt=\"The collected folders\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Add tree function in Visual Installer you can add a folder structure including files to Visual Installer&#8217;s file list in an easy way. It is also possible to add a folder structure without files to Visual Installer&#8217;s file list with the same Add tree function. We will show below how to do this. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/how-to-add-a-folder-tree-to-visual-installers-file-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to add a folder tree to Visual Installer&#8217;s file list&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}