Delaying product registration until user unlocks program
We have a product that is distributed freely as a viewer / reader of documents created by the full version of the product. If a user decides to license the product, the viewer / reader version can be unlocked using the purchased license information.
The dilemma is that we want the viewer to unlock into the full version of the software, but we don't want each free viewer that is downloaded to be registered with the update service, which eats away at our pre-purchased number of update users.
We tried not registering the product online until after building the installer, so that the "registered" field of InstallShield X Express remained "no". But the product is still registered with the update manager. (The plan was to use the command line registration call after the user licensed the software.)
Is there any way, using InstallShield X Express, to install the necessary update components, but leave the product unregistered until we explicitly register the product through the command line call?
The only way to do this would be to run a custom action to unregister the product in the installation. This would remove the registration information until you decided to register it again. The command would be agent.exe /u
