Include directories with files when building Installer

I want my installer to install the executable in C:\ProductA\SystemTest\Program1
I also want have C:\ProductA\SystemTest\CsvFiles created and have the csv files included.
Is this possible?
How would I go about doing this?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Take a look at this sample project (LV2013). The build target folder is c:\tmp\csv_test, but it creates all additional sub-folders.
For some reason I cannot attach a zip file to the post, so just create 'files' folder as sub-folder of the project and add some files there. You can have also sub-folders in 'files'
In the destination settings you need to check the 'Preserve disk hierarchy' option.
In Always Included you need to add only the root folder of your CSV files
Attachments:
csv_test.lvproj ‏7 KB
list_files.vi ‏8 KB

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