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Apr 26, 2010

Greetings Everyone,I have run into a problem where we determine where our installation is going to go based on some evaluation in an InstallScript Custom Action. Within this action the [INSTALLDIR] property is updated. When running the installation...

Dec 16, 2009

Greetings All,Is there a recommended way to pass a queried password to a deferred action via the customActionData property? I query a user's password during the UI portion of the install and then set it to a public property. It seems that it gets s...

Jul 14, 2009

Greetings,I have a question regarding the availability of environment variables from processes launched from within the installation instance. I am setting a number of variables and am wondering if they ever become available to batch files or proces...

Jun 01, 2009

All,Are Environment Variables set by the installation available within the install at any point? We are setting some system vars as part of our install and need to run some external 3rd party batch files. Do we need to run these batch files as comm...

Installing as lower user · Feb 17, 2009

All,We are currently evaluating installshield '09(and I am new to this installer business  and we are ALMOST THERE. Our only other need is to install an application, then change to a different user to run a setup portion of the application we just ...

Dec 17, 2009

Vijay__K wrote:Hi,I may have missed something here, but have you set the customActionProperty (Password) to the function that requires it?Regards,Vijay.Hello,Yes i set it as part of the same setproperty action which forwards srcdir, importfilename an...

Dec 17, 2009

Thank you for your reply. The issue is on Windows Server 2003 and the SecureCustomProperties property does exist and the password property is included within it along with another property which does get properly propagated to the deferred custom ac...

Jul 15, 2009

Are you using an MSI DLL?Being new to installshield and the windows platform i have had success w/using MSI DLLs to perform functions upon button presses during the UI phase. Using MSI DLLs i am able to read and set properties from the DLL as it is...

Jul 14, 2009

From my understanding (and i am fairly new to this) there can only be one setup.exe running at any time. So your best bet may be to extract the drivers and install them yourself. I believe that you can chain MSIs but i am not sure about chaining se...

May 21, 2009

You can also access it via SRCDIR^\\MyDLL.dll

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