title: Installshield 12: How to share strings and translations for shared functions
body: <p>I have several Installshield 12 setups (using non-msi Installscript based setups) for several different products. These share some code, which I would like to put into shared .rul files. However, some of that code can report errors or in general show messages to the user. </p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to share strings (and their translations) across projects like you can share the .rul files? I see the string tables are included inside the ism file, and a bit of rtfm-ing and googling hasn't found an easy (or even any) way to do this.</p>