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It's very straightforward to add languages to an installshield project. My goal is to make a modified English (0x0409.ini) with some of the strings modified, such as

Strings I want to modify

However I have a team of people that would have to copy these files to a directory much like C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield\2012Spring\Support andC:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield\2012Spring\redist\. This is even worse with the 10+ machines in the build farm that could potentially need this file. It's a non-starter. It's hacky to have modify the install of a tool to get it to use an unsupported language.

Is it possible to check the language file to SCM and have it reside in a subfolder of <ISProjectDir>?

thekbb
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I don't believe so. I think you'd have to set up a post-build step that would copy in a modified ini file.

You could set up one in installshield's UI but I don't know if that persists in a stand alone build.

NGaida
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    In my shiny happy world the account running the build wouldn't have rights to hork the build machine (write to %PROGRAMFILES%). It's frustrating that InstallShield is to software development as a 1984 Ford Escort is to the Indy 500. It's not a tool for engineers. – thekbb Apr 26 '13 at 15:33
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    This could be done without modifying your build system. Whatever custom ini file you want could be checked in alongside your ism file, and post-build it could copy it from there to your output location; thus automating the process without modifying the build system. – NGaida Apr 26 '13 at 16:56