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TurboFisch · ‎Jan 26, 2017

No I haven't solved this. It was just deferred. My pre-requsites are associated to a feature. I believe that the UI is functioning because custom action ISInstallPrerequisites is in the UI sequence. The execute sequence does not refer to it. There is very little information on this subject. command I'm using looks like this setup.exe /S"/Lv* install.log /norestart".

TurboFisch · ‎Dec 20, 2016

We use silent mode to setup the whole image of our product and then customer use the ui version for updates. My prerequisites not installing when in silent mode is used. Snippets from the log MSI (s) (A8:D0) [17:08:55:189]: Doing action: ISInstallPrerequisites ... Action start 17:08:55: ISInstallPrerequisites. InstallShield 17:08:55: No features with associated prerequisites are being installed or advertised. Skipping prerequisites. ... Any ideas what to look for? Thanks

TurboFisch · ‎Oct 07, 2016

the INSTALLDIR is different, as our company changed name the old version has a single shortcut to the application the new version has shortcuts based on the feature, some have a launcher instead of calling the application directly registration is still in ISelfReg table, that has not change, but dll's appear to be unregistered when upgrading features gets enabled based on a condition. this sets the INSTALLEVEL to a higher value. old version did not have conditions like that. thanks,

TurboFisch · ‎Oct 05, 2016

ping is not a good approach, because the firewall might be preventing pings. ipconfig might be better and then you can check if the Ip address is valid.

TurboFisch · ‎Oct 05, 2016

I have 4 upgrade scenarios. Two of the these fail to completely install. The files are there but shortcuts are missing and dll registration appears to not have occurred. If I run repair, then the software works flawless. What should I look for in the log? AlllUsers indicates that is can find it: InstallShield 13:35:59: Begin SetAllUsers() InstallShield 13:35:59: Getting records from Upgrade table InstallShield 13:35:59: UpgradeCode: {3C25E2CB-CEAD-11D3-BECE-0060B0A1E303} MinVersion: MaxVersion: 99.99.99.9999 Language: Attributes: 512 InstallShield 13:35:59: No related products for UpgradeCode {3C25E2CB-CEAD-11D3-BECE-0060B0A1E303} found InstallShield 13:35:59: UpgradeCode: {3C25E2CB-CEAD-11D3-BECE-0060B0A1E303} MinVersion: 11.00.00 MaxVersion: 11.00.99 Language: Attributes: 768 InstallShield 13:35:59: No related products for UpgradeCode {3C25E2CB-CEAD-11D3-BECE-0060B0A1E303} found InstallShield 13:35:59: UpgradeCode: {3C25E2CB-CEAD-11D3-BECE-0060B0A1E303} MinVersion: 12.69.19 MaxVersion: 99.99.99.9999 Language: Attributes: 769 InstallShield 13:35:59: No related products for UpgradeCode {3C25E2CB-CEAD-11D3-BECE-0060B0A1E303} found InstallShield 13:35:59: UpgradeCode: {6A10DEF6-2C6E-4B6F-9CC8-9ECBE1A64D8E} MinVersion: 0.0.0.0 MaxVersion: 99.99.99.9999 Language: Attributes: 769 InstallShield 13:35:59: Checking related product {2F1BF1BA-417F-4BD2-B2A7-5D627EFC614A} InstallShield 13:35:59: Really Good Software {2F1BF1BA-417F-4BD2-B2A7-5D627EFC614A} 1033 10.56.09.301.0 ***Related*** MSI (c) (18!4C) [13:35:59:289]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE property. Its value is 'Yes'. InstallShield 13:35:59: ALLUSERS of related product {2F1BF1BA-417F-4BD2-B2A7-5D627EFC614A} is = 1 InstallShield 13:35:59: End SetAllUsers() Any help would be appreciated, thanks

TurboFisch · ‎Apr 24, 2015

yes, the prereq's msi is no longer in the temp directory. It appears that after my setup.exe runs, it deletes all temporary directories including the directories containing prereq installers. I find the Installshield ui confusing, because it states that "the cached .msi file and other cached installations ....", which I would assume that it would put everything there including the prereq's msi's. Does installshield look for a registry entry to find the location of the cached installer? If so, I could just set that and then copy the installer there.

TurboFisch · ‎Apr 23, 2015

That is unfortunate. I already know that the "repair" works for the pre-requisite msi's, when run standalone. Then "repair" function no longer works if I install the msi as a pre-requisite. Seems odd that it should change this behavior when it already works in standalone. Isn't there an property that I can pass in to make repair work?

TurboFisch · ‎Apr 21, 2015

how do cache pre-requisite msi's? By default, my setup.exe uses "cache msi locally". It appears that the pre-requisites that I'm using do not obey the directory and put's it into the temp directory. Is there a way to change the location of pre-requiste msi? Thanks,

TurboFisch · ‎Feb 26, 2015

That is what the problem was. I wish there was a single API that we could just call with a single call, instead of 2. Ir seems to me that I have to do this for each property. It would be nice to just initialize all properties in a single call, and then use them later in deferred CA. Thanks

TurboFisch · ‎Feb 21, 2015

I set a property via custom action property successfully, and the new value shows up in dialogs like InstallWelcome. However, msgetproperty fails to retrieve the value and even the "MessageBoxEx" shows the previous value of the property.

TurboFisch · ‎Feb 03, 2015

Issue seems to be the attribute "stretch to fit" is always set to "true". Installshield's algorithm being used to stretch pictures performs miserably. I'd like to globally turn off this feature in my projects. At this point, I had to turn off this attribute in existing projects, but I'd like to turn it off by default. There also seems be no control over the very first dialog, that points to the theme being used. The image here is a .gif, which is completely counter intuitive, since everything else uses .bmp.

TurboFisch · ‎Oct 24, 2014

I don't have a choice on which images to pick. Instead of removing the DPI feature, why didn't you just default it to on and allow one turn it off with a Boolean property? It might work for 99% of installshield users. There are a whole set of images in the basic msi project that one cannot control from within the project. These are tied to the theme, e.g. setup.gif is one example that is shown before the actual installer starts (why is it a .gif?). Our workaround is the overwrite the file that is in the themes. Seems crazy to have to resort to this.

TurboFisch · ‎Oct 13, 2014

IS 2014 doesn't work. banner still looks bad.

TurboFisch · ‎Oct 10, 2014

It appears that Installshield's banners look bad if we use a higher DPI setting. Is it possible to make installshield DPI aware? (msexec is, so it is unclear why it is a problem) Is it possible to point it to vector graphics instead? Thanks,.

TurboFisch · ‎Oct 09, 2014

For msi log files, is there a way to turn off time stamps? MSI (s) (F4:2C) [18:26:14:434]: Note: 1: 2318 2: MSI (s) (F4:2C) [18:26:14:434]: Note: 1: 2318 2: the bolded items every line will be different. If this one thing is turned off then standard diffing tools like KDiff can pinpoint the differences. There is just too much NOISE in a msi log file.

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