I don't want installshield to download updates into the default c:\documents and settings\username\ ... etc directory. Please could anyone tell me if the default download location can be changed for the update service? Any means of controlling this from installscript? I have searched everywhere and I could not find an answer.
Awaiting reply friends .. please.. 🙂 Please give me a solution. Alternatively, can someone tell me how to make the file downloaded automatically launch. I know it is a basic question, but I am a newbie.
After the service downloads an update, it just sits in a directory. Is there anyway that it could be launched automatically, so that the user does not have to do it himself manually.
Check out the AutoUpdate API for the agent. You don't get the flexibility of processing the item yourself and doing other tasks you may want to, but your item is downloaded and run with the API.
From the docs: AutoUpdate checks for a critical software update. If such an update is found, the method returns True and downloads the update and launches it; otherwise the method returns False.
