Install Conditions - Newbie Question

[CChong]

Hello,

I have just started to use Admin Studio 5.0 after migfrating from wise.

I need to do the following:

1. Immediatly check to see if a registry key is present.
2. If it is exit, else continue with the install.

things I have done,

Added a search to the system search to find this key.... but them I am stuck. Im not sure of the syntax for the install condition or if I have done the system search properly.

Please help!!

thanks

Jamie

[RobertDickau]

To verify that the system search worked, you might create an MSI log file while deploying your installation: running the command

msiexec /i product.msi /Lp properties.log

should do it. The log file should show all the properties set by your installation, and this will tell you if your system-search property was filled in.

As for the launch condition, you might set the condition to:

Not REGISTRYPROP

(or whatever property name you used in the system search) and then define an exit message if the condition fails (that is, if the registry key exists).

[CChong]

Thankyou very much for that, it all sounds perfect and I have tried it, but I still seem to be missing something.

Do I have to add the search into the sequences somehow?

Because it installs wether the reg key is there or not!

Maybe I have setup my search wrong? I did the Wizard in the end and let it add an Install condition.

please help

Thanks in advance

Jamie

[RobertDickau]

No, the AppSearch action should already be in your project, so you shouldn't need to add it; have you run the MSI debugger or created a log file to verify that the property associated with your search is being set? Perhaps post what you entered as your search properties?