We have recently migrated from InstallShield 5.5 to 2008. This is an InstallScript project.
In the past, we built our project through a nightly build. A perl script modified our string table with an incremented version number, and whatever version number our database was at, and then built the project with the new string table.
I don't even see the string table file in the folder structure anymore after we went through the conversion-- it seems that the only way to modify that table is to do it inside InstallShield.
Is there any way around this dilemma? Any suggestions as to where we could put that build number so that InstallShield can access it?
You need to use InstallShield Automation here. I have seen some functions in InstallScript using which you can import and export the String table (.txt file) before building the final release.
