Deployment Manager - Add Featured Files

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Projects Window | right-click your project | Add... | select a file that may require features files
Drag a file that may require features files onto the Projects Window

Enabling DataBase Drivers for Multi-Device Applications: You must first enable the appropriate database drivers on the Deployment Manager - Add Featured Files dialog box in order to run, debug, or deploy multi-device database applications. Select the names of the platform-specific drivers that you want to enable for deployment on your specific target machine.Deploying DataBase Libraries for Multi-Device Applications: You must first add the appropriate database libraries on the Deployment Manager - Add Featured Files dialog box in order to run, debug, or deploy multi-device database applications. Select the names of the platform-specific libraries and license files that you want to enable for deployment on your specific target machine. When you click OK, the enabled files are placed on the Deployment Manager's list of files to be deployed. The files are not copied to the target platform until you explicitly run, debug, or deploy your application from the IDE.

Add Featured Files Dialog Box

The Add Featured Files dialog box shows a nested list of database drivers and libraries that can be added to the deployment list.

The nested list includes the available database drivers. Separate drivers are listed for each platform. You can enable drivers for all platforms by selecting the driver name at the top level, and you can enable single platforms if you open the tree structure and enable either a single platform or a single driver.

Every list item can be expanded to reveal the available platforms and the paths and filenames of each item (library, driver, and so on) in the list. Select the required version or versions of the file or files according to your deployment platform, and then click OK to close this dialog box and add the files to the File Items view in the Deployment Manager. 64-bit Windows drivers typically have the same file names as the corresponding Windows 32-bit drivers, but the location on disk is different (\bin64 for 64-bit Windows, for example).

The Add Featured Files dialog box shows only the well-known files that cannot be determined automatically by the deployment backend. The list shown is based on the $(BDS)\ObjRepos\en\Deploy\featuredfiles.xml file, which declares the well-known files that become selectable in the featured files list. You can edit the featuredfiles.xml file if you want to customize this dialog box with new featured files.

Show automatically when required

If the Show automatically when required checkbox is activated, the Add Featured Files dialog box opens automatically when you add a special file to the Projects Window that requires additional files, such as database drivers or license files. Then you can select the necessary files to add to the Deployment Manager list. If you disable this option, the Featured Files dialog box does not show automatically anymore; instead, you must open the Featured Files dialog box manually to add or remove featured files.

Supported Drivers

Here are the items drivers that can appear in the Add Featured Files dialog box:

Driver Name	Platform Support
	32-bit Windows	64-bit Windows	macOS	iOS Device - 32 bit	iOS Device - 64 bit	iOS Simulator	Android
InterBase Client	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
InterBase ToGo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DBExpress InterBase Driver	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
DBExpress DB2 Driver	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
DBExpress Firebird Driver	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
DBExpress MySQL Driver	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
DBExpress Oracle Driver	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
DBExpress Informix Driver	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
DBExpress MSSQL Driver	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
DBExpress MSSQL9 Driver	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
DBExpress Sybase ASA Driver	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
DBExpress Sybase ASE Driver	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
MIDAS Library	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Database Adapter	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No

Add Featured Files Filtered List

When you add to the Projects Window a file that, based on its file extension, may require you to add some featured files to the deployment configuration of your project, RAD Studio opens a filtered view of the Add Featured Files dialog.

The list of options that this filtered view shows depends on the extension of the file that you added to your project:

File extensions	Dialog options list
.gdb .ib	InterBase ToGo DBExpress InterBase Driver MIDAS Library Database Adapter
.fb .fdb	InterBase ToGo DBExpress InterBase Driver MIDAS Library Database Adapter
.dbf	DBExpress DB2 Driver MIDAS Library Database Adapter
.db .s2db .s3db .sdb	MIDAS Library Database Adapter

See Also

• Deployment Manager
• Deployment Manager - Deploying a project
• Deployment Manager - Adding files
• Deployment Manager - Deleting files