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sharon · ‎Dec 06, 2009

Hi all, I had learned from flexera publications that ISD 2010 includes support for installations that will be run on WINDOWS 7 OS. However, I could not determine if it is recommended to install the instance of installshield software of any version: installshield 2008, 2009 or even 2010 on a windows 7 machine. As I am going to work on windows 7 machine, I need to know if I should install my installshield 2008 and 2009 instances on my windows 7 machine, or on my xp mode machine which comes with it. Please let me know if you have the answer for this.... Thanks a lot in advance, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Oct 25, 2009

Hi all, I would like to note that part of the documentations for /clone_wait specify that it can only be used for installscript projects, This is probably why I cannot get it to work on basic msi setup.exe, although I did not get any error when passing clone_wait to my basic msi setup.exe, as specified in teh previous post of this thread. I need to run setp.exe and not msi in order to present splashes to the user on install. Anyone knows a vaild solution for running setup.exe of basic msi from DVD using launchapplication/launchappandwait/doinstall, Like the /clone_wait flag for setup.exe of installscript projects?

sharon · ‎Oct 25, 2009

Hi All, I am using an Installscript project as a wrapper that runs packages of type basic msi. First, I run setup.exe of one basic msi project. Then, If a specific feature of this project was selected by the user, I run anotehr msi package. (I tried doing it with features prerequisites but seems that there is a bug in ISD 2009 on run from DVD - So I moved to this plan B) This Plan B works when installing from network,But on installation from DVD, I could see on debug that the installer is not waiting for the first setup.exe to finish and never gets to run the next msi. I tried using the /clone_wait flag when running the first setup.exe, with no success: nResult = LaunchAppAndWait(" setup.exe", " /clone_wait /V\"/L*v.......", LAAW_OPTION_WAIT | LAAW_OPTION_SET_BATCH_INSTALL); Any idea why this is NOT WORKING, and still installation does not wait until setup.exe is finished? Thanks a lot, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Oct 22, 2009

Hi, all 3 installers are msi. As the 2 prerequsiites are 3rd party, I knew that on some machines users will get the note: would you like to run.... due to security issues. As this is a 3rd party, the creator of it is unidentified and our customers might fear from installing it. I tried to prevent that by signing the main installer with our signature. The note shown to users that run main installer from network is shown after they have selected the feature that has the prerequisites under, and it is not shown in case we run the installation from DVD. it is saying: would you like to run setup.exe of the MAIN installer. Do you have an idea how can I solve this issue?

sharon · ‎Oct 20, 2009

Hi Michael and all other forum mebers, As this issue only gets reproduced on run from DVD, I would like to get your opinion regarding the option that this is a security issue (as user is not prompted to approve setup ONLY from DVD) In addition, The files being run as the prerequisites are msi files, and I chose the option: copy from source media. But I can see during the install 2 setup.exe files in the TEMP folder under the same folder of the main application, And not msi files. Thanks for any help you may reach... Sharon.

sharon · ‎Oct 19, 2009

Hi all, I am building a major setup for a main product. Recently I have added 2 feature prerequisites (msi packages) of a 3rd party to a new feature in this project. On installation from network, I get a note: would you like to run the setup.exe? for security reasons, And once I select to install, all goes fine. On installation from DVD, I am not required to approve the installation. I am encountering serious problems : Right after the feature selection, I can see a progress bar, with note for: installing x (the prerequisite) shortly after that, I get an error 1500 (another win installer package is running) and I have to cancel the main installer. According to the log file, IsInstallPrerequisites returns value=1, and I can see both prerequisites in add/remove programs window. Does anyone have an idea why does it only get reproduced on installation from DVD and how can I solve this issue? Please help, It's a major problem.... :confused: Thanks, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Oct 04, 2009

Hi all, I am calling SQLRTInitialize2 and then SQLRTGetConnections in an installscript installer that supports both 32 and 64 bit OS. On 64 bit ONLY, The list of available connections to SQL SERVERS returns empty, And users must manually set the name of their server in the relevant window. I have seen one thread from the past questioning about built in SQLRT functions support for 64 bit OS,But there was no answer. Can anyone please spread some light about this? Is there a workaround for this issue that allows presentation of the available connections on a 64 bit OS? I would really appreciate a quick response, Thanks in advance, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Aug 10, 2009

😮 Thanks for your response, I was asking about one replacement for a few seperate edit fields, In a dialog of a basic msi installer This option seems interesting. Thanks again, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Aug 09, 2009

Hi all, I am creating an installer that gets several string inputs from the user on one dialog. (take, for example, the parts of a url address: server ip and port) In previous installers I used seperate editable boxes for these cases, But I was told that there is an option to include one control that is combined of several boxes instead, Where each box is related to another property. Can anyone ellaborate about this option? Thanks in advance, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Jul 16, 2009

Hi Vlad, As I could not see any reference for this feature in the published tutorials - I strated experimenting... I found out that in one scenario the copy/paste between projects is enabled: Only if you open the project with advanced designer --> choose action -> edit/write click-> copy --> choose from the menu: open project--> browse for another project and then you can choose "paste" for the same action in the installation process --it works. Seems like it has to be the same session of IA that is open. If you close one project and then open another from the designer OR close the whole designer and open another project OR open 2 projects in parallel--> It fails to work. This is hardly comfortable as you need to switch between projects for each action that is copied, but it is better than nothing. Thanks again for your response. Hope thsi might help you and others, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Jul 16, 2009

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I still have hope that this feature is included in IA 2009, As it seems to be an obvious feature that was already implemented by installshield long ago. Does anyone know where I can check for this information? In addition: It would be really nice to be able to search for strings in the project (file names, folders, etc.) via the advanced view of the project. as it is actually an xml file it seems like I just didn't find the way to do it, Is "find string" supported? Thanks again, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Jul 15, 2009

Hi all, Since my main work is with InstallShield, I was looking in installanywhere for a mechanism for export/import of actions between different projects that will deliver the same functionality as in Installshield and save precious time. I was only able to use the copy action - which did not work between different projects. Does anyone know if this ability exists in IA 2009? Thanks a lot, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Jun 24, 2009

Hi All, I need urgent help in finding a workaround for creating a "patch" installation with IA. I was using this useful link: http://kb.acresso.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalID=Q112993 The problem is that it does not specify the critical importance of having a key file chosen for the component that is used to set REG_COMPONENTS_LOCATIONS value. Unfortunately, I found out about it only after GA was delivered without key file, And now I cannot get the installdir of the original package during installation of the patch installer. (REG_COMPONENTS_LOCATIONS is always set to NULL) Does anyone know about another way to detect the value of user_install_dir of the base package that was installed on the machine? Thanks a lot in advance, Sharon.

sharon · ‎Jun 24, 2009

Thanks for your response, But you specified the way to determine install log file - which is o.k....I was asking for a way to determine the location of a log file that will be created as a result of the build process- in order to see if the build fails and why.

sharon · ‎Jun 24, 2009

Hi All, After googling quite a lot, I don't seem to find any way to set the location of the build log file. I only saw the option to set: com.zerog.ia.installer.options.stderr.redirect= com.zerog.ia.installer.options.stdout.redirect= via properties file, in case I am running build from command line not using ANT. Is there any way to set the build log file location via the API?

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