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hype261
Level 3
‎Nov 15, 2011 03:44 PM

Chained MSI Relative Path

I have a chained msi that is installed along with my main msi. I want the chained msi to be installed in a folder along side the main msi.

example

main msi : C:\Program Files\Main Msi\
chained msi: C:\Program Files\Chained Msi\

I tried to use a relative path in the Install properties:
INSTALLDIR = "[INSTALLDIR]..\Chained Msi\"

,but that didn't seem to work. Anybody know how to do this???
This is a basic MSI project
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dbdemigod
Level 3
‎Jun 15, 2012 04:13 PM

Does anyone have a solution for this? You would think this request would be VERY common with Chained MSIs, yet I see that InstallShield hasn't replied, and the original requester never posted a solution.

I tried the intuitive thing of using a relative path based on INSTALLDIR, as did the original requester, but got an error stating that ".." is an invalid path character.

All help is appreciated.

- Matt -
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hype261
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‎Jun 19, 2012 03:30 PM

Demigod,

I did not ever find a solution to this problem and since it only happened when the user installed the program not in program files I wasn't concerned enough to fix it. A possible solution would be to write a custom script to look up where the main product is installed in the registry and then do some relative parsing on your own, but this assumes that the main product has written out its path to the registry prior to starting the chain msi install.
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