Summary

Creates text to be displayed in a progress dialog box and written to the log for actions that take a long time to execute. The text displayed consists of the action description and optionally formatted data from the action. The entries in the ActionText table typically refer to actions in sequence tables.

Parameters

Attribute	Type	Description	Required
name	string	Unique name identifying the action.	True
template	string	A localized format template is used to format action data records for display during action execution. If no template is supplied, then the action data will not be displayed.	False

Nested Elements:

<description>

Localized description displayed in the progress dialog box or written to the log when the action is executing.

</description>

Examples

Add the related action text for the web folder actions.


    <actiontext>
        <action name="WEBCA_GatherWebFolderProperties" >
            <description>Gathering web folder properties</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_ApplyWebFolderProperties" >
            <description>Applying web folder properties</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_RollbackApplyWebFolderProperties" >
            <description>Removing web folder properties</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_CreateURLs" >
            <description>Creating URLs</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_EvaluateURLs" >
            <description>Evaluating URLs</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_EvaluateURLsNoFail" >
            <description>Evaluating URLs and do not fail if URL is invalid</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_EvaluateURLsMB" >
            <description>Evaluating URLs</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_CreateAppRoots" >
            <description>Creating application roots</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_TARGETVDIR" >
            <description>Set TARGETVDIR property to the specified virtual dir</description>
        </action>
        <action name="WEBCA_TARGETPORT" >
            <description>Set TARGETPORT property to the specified virtual dir port</description>
        </action>
    </actiontext>

Assembly: NAnt.Contrib.dll
Namespace: NAnt.Contrib.Tasks.Msi
Containing Type: InstallerTaskBase

Syntax

[BuildElement("actiontext", ProcessXml = false)]
public SchemaElement[] InstallerActionTextElement { get; set; }

Attributes

Type	Description
BuildElement

Value

Type	Description
SchemaElement[]

InstallerTaskBase.

InstallerActionTextElement Property