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‎Jul 15, 2008
03:56 AM
IA variables in expand archive install action
Hi everyone,
I am extracting a ZIP archive whose path is stored in IA variables as such (the path separator ends the ZIP_LOCATION content):
$ZIP_LOCATION$$ZIP_NAME$
When the action occurs during the install phase the label on the screen hideously reads:
Can anyone provide a suggestion on how to force the resolution of the variable value, or hide the action altogether?
This is an enterprise product, so displaying this is not good enough. My last resort will be custom code to do the extraction.
Thanks,
Paul
I am extracting a ZIP archive whose path is stored in IA variables as such (the path separator ends the ZIP_LOCATION content):
$ZIP_LOCATION$$ZIP_NAME$
When the action occurs during the install phase the label on the screen hideously reads:
"Installing... Archive: $ZIP_LOCATION$$ZIP_NAME$"
Can anyone provide a suggestion on how to force the resolution of the variable value, or hide the action altogether?
This is an enterprise product, so displaying this is not good enough. My last resort will be custom code to do the extraction.
Thanks,
Paul
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‎Jul 16, 2008
04:20 PM
Two questions: does the ZIP name change (i.e. is it necessary to store it in a variable?) And is it installed outside of the $USER_INSTALL_DIR$?
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‎Jul 16, 2008
06:05 PM
Yes and yes.
Handling different file names via the variable is quite important as they have an option via a custom panel to download the archive over FTP or point to an archive already obtained.
It downloads by default to the $INSTALLER_TEMP_DIR$ and is expanded from there to where it needs to go, but with the browse option the source area could be anywhere on the disk.
Handling different file names via the variable is quite important as they have an option via a custom panel to download the archive over FTP or point to an archive already obtained.
It downloads by default to the $INSTALLER_TEMP_DIR$ and is expanded from there to where it needs to go, but with the browse option the source area could be anywhere on the disk.