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‎Mar 26, 2013
08:42 AM
Visibility conditions not working in Suite / Advanced UI project
Visibility conditions don't seem to work in my Suite / Advanced UI project. At the InstallationComplete page I have a control that should be visible only during the initial installation. The documentation states that
So I have the Visible property as {Mode install}, which according to documentation should be visible in the install mode. However, the checkbox is visible also at the end of the uninstallation regardless of whether I start the removal straight from the control panel or launching the installer again and selecting Remove from the maintenance view. How could I hide the checkbox in scenarios other than the initial installation?
Mode: This type of condition ties the visible state of the control to the mode in which the Advanced UI or Suite/Advanced UI installation is running. Available modes are install, remove, maintenance, modify, repair, and stage. For example, to show the control if the mode is install, enter the following statement:
{Mode install}
So I have the Visible property as {Mode install}, which according to documentation should be visible in the install mode. However, the checkbox is visible also at the end of the uninstallation regardless of whether I start the removal straight from the control panel or launching the installer again and selecting Remove from the maintenance view. How could I hide the checkbox in scenarios other than the initial installation?
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‎Mar 28, 2013
05:14 AM
Apparently the {Mode install} syntax doesn't work, but seems like {Binding MyProperty=MyValue} still works. So I have a workaround for this, but it would be good to have the documented {Mode install} syntax work so I wouldn't have to set additional properties.
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‎May 08, 2013
01:43 AM
Hi,
How do you set the property then to MyValue in case of a first installation and to AnotherValue in case of remove or update?
Thanks for answerring...
Greetings
Eric
How do you set the property then to MyValue in case of a first installation and to AnotherValue in case of remove or update?
Thanks for answerring...
Greetings
Eric
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‎May 08, 2013
07:29 AM
Eric Vanlaeken wrote:
Hi,
How do you set the property then to MyValue in case of a first installation and to AnotherValue in case of remove or update?
Thanks for answerring...
Well if it's needed only in an installation with UI, then e.g. {SetProperty MyProperty=MyValue} in the action field for the Next button at the InstallationWelcome dialog and {SetProperty MyProperty=AnotherValue} in the action field for e.g. the Modify button at the MaintenanceWelcome dialog should do the trick. Not the prettiest solution, though.
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‎May 15, 2013
05:23 AM
Here I have another trick.
You can not edit it in the User interface of the Suite authoring tool but you can add it with a simple text editor right inside the .issuite file.
Add this and the property "Updating" will be set to "Yes" when the application was allready installed and to "No" when this is a first installation:
Later on in the Wizard, you can bind this property to the visibility of a control or even skip some dialog boxes.
May be I can help someone with this.
Good luck,
Eric
You can not edit it in the User interface of the Suite authoring tool but you can add it with a simple text editor right inside the .issuite file.
Add this and the property "Updating" will be set to "Yes" when the application was allready installed and to "No" when this is a first installation:
Later on in the Wizard, you can bind this property to the visibility of a control or even skip some dialog boxes.
May be I can help someone with this.
Good luck,
Eric
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‎Dec 06, 2013
08:52 AM
I realize I'm waking up an old thread here, but I wanted to mention that both of these things have easier approaches in InstallShield 2013 and later. The conditions used in the UI have been normalized such that you can use a Mode condition on a control, and the new Events view allows scheduling conditional actions outside the UI that can set properties or run exe files, etc. Events and actions offer an alternative approach to setting conditions on regular properties that cannot be seen in the IDE, and the normalized conditions should remove the need for it described in this thread.
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