Johannes John wrote: Hello, my first idea was: Do you have activated the release setting "Build UTF-8 Database"? Regards Johannes Hi Johannes, Sorry didn't understand what you are trying to point at. Please clarify. Maybe it helps me further. Regards, Niks ... View more

DLee65 wrote: I just read over the help text for supporting multiple languages. I am assuming that you have the Premier edition of InstallShield as that seems to be the only version that supports multiple languages. For translations, InstallShield does not include anything to automatically translate the string table. I do not recall seeing any 'language packs' available either that can handle simpler things like control buttons and such. Make sure you read through the help regarding 'Settings for Languages'. There are settings you can make at the component level regarding languages, and such. I suspect you have all of these issues ironed out already as your original question just deals with the text on the dialogs. I would caution against using Google Translator for anything but simple one-word controls like the Next, Back, and Cancel Buttons. The reason is that you may end up with some embarrassing idioms from the translation. As good as Google Translate is for casual translation for chats or even emails, it may not be the best for a professional product. I would encourage my managers to look for someone who writes Arabic fluently to do the translation for you. One simple test to show the problems with Google Translator is to take a complex sentence, enter it in Google Translate, translate it to a chosen language, then translate the text back. In most all cases you will see that the sentence construct is awkward at best. Also, once you have your text translated, be sure you go through all of your dialogs to ensure that the text fits the assigned controls, such as text boxes, edit controls, buttons, etc. Sometimes a dialog has to be tweaked a bit to make sure all of the text fits. 🙂 In the help search for 'Translating String Entries' as well. This may give some more clarity to the issue. Go through the links at the bottom as well, such as 'Localizing the End-User Interface and Globalization Tips. EDIT: I just looked at the 'New Language Wizard' for a suite project. I had no idea how complex Arabic could be. It looks like there are several 'flavors' of Arabic available. Hopefully in your context you can narrow the scope of the translation work. Good luck. Hi DLee, Thanks for your response. Will work further on this see if I have any good option to get my dialogs translated. Regards, Niks ... View more

DLee65 wrote: Hello Niks, I am not certain of the General tab, but you should be able to export your string table. If it is in English it should be something like Strings1033 where 1033 represents the languageID . Someone then creates a copy of this file and translates the strings in the desired language. The file should be Strings . You can then import the string file. It is my understanding that things related to the UI, unless you have a custom dialog, should automatically integrate the correct language based upon your selections. I think you have to make sure to include the language selection dialog though unless you are creating separate releases one for each language ID. Hi Lee, Thanks for your response. I have added Arabic using "Add New Language" feature of Installshield. I am able to see Arabic language option in my language selection tab now. I have also added language selection dialog at the starting of my installer but when selected Arabic, my strings are not getting converted to Arabic. Now talking about exporting my English String 1033 and then getting it translated and then importing back.. Is there any option that I can directly translate all the strings and then use them in project? Or do I have to copy paste each and every string in Google translator and get it done? Please suggest. Thanks again. Niks ... View more

Hi DLee, I have tried adding Radio/ComboBox for my package selection in Suite Project but unable to link my radio/dropdown selection with the Features linked with PAckages. Can you please throw some light on the complete process of : 1.Setting/Getting properties in install script of suite. 2.Adding these in actions with conditional settings. 3.Binding the event/actions created with my drop-down/radio buttons selection on wizard page. This is kind of crucial project for me. Kindly suggest how can this be done. Regards ... View more

Hi, Can anybody help me out in this. I am trying to link my custom values of combo box with specific features of my Suite. I am not able to link one specific dropdown value with individual feature. I am unaware of using {Binding Feature} Syntax. If someone can please guide me through step by step process of adding values and conditions to activate my dropbox I would really appreciate it. Regards.. ... View more

DLee65 wrote: I am not certain here. Try putting quotes around the value that you set, MYVALUE="0", MYVALUE="1", MYVALUE="2", etc. OR you can change your test from string to number. I suspect that is causing the problem but I am not 100% sure on this. Hi, I have tried every possible combination for this to work but I have been unsuccessful. I have set a single property in property manager and set its value to 1. In radio buttons content properties I have added 1 ,0,1. Under event I have added set property value comparing with property manager condition. Same has been compared in features view. The installation does begin but only of those features which are in exact comparison with property manager. I have tried "" and used different property values in manager too. The radio button group is non functional in this as its a suite installation. Any help is appreciated. Thanks again. ... View more

DLee65 wrote: When you create your radio buttons you are going to create a property for the group. Use this property to control the feature or even component states. If you are showing the feature tree as well, mark the feature with the options as not visible. On my dialog I have two radio button controls. Select one of your radio button controls. Look at the content properties on the right. Set a property that you can use - I used MAIN_COMPUTER==YES. Select your next radio button control and set a value for the same property, MAIN_COMPUTER==NO. If you have more than two radio button controls just set the values to something reasonable for your install context. I do recommend using all upper case characters for a public property so you can allow users to install this from a command line and set the property with the command line. After creating the property, go to features. Select a feature that you want to control. Create a new condition for the feature. I added 'All, Property Comparison' where the Name=MAIN_COMPUTER, string, Equal, & Compare To: YES (or the value that should be used to install the feature). Repeat this process with any other features that should be optional. Hi, Thanks a lot for your response. According to your suggestion I tried and it works fine with 2 Radio buttons. But when I am trying with 3 Radio Buttons I am trying 0 and 1 logic, but its failing. It's either not installing anything or its installing everything. Thanks for your quick responses.:) ... View more

DLee65 wrote: The feature tree selection is not able be modified that I know. I had to create a custom dialog with my radio button controls and not use the feature tree. For me the issue was allow the user the option to select if this instal is for the main database computer or a client computer. So I just created a custom dialog that shows the two options with an explanation about the options. Hi, But how do I append Features with Radio Buttons and link it with Install option. That is where I am stuck right now. ... View more

DLee65 wrote: First, do you include a detection condition for the EXE packages, to determine if the correct package is installed? What type of condition does the EXE package itself use to determine if it is already installed. If you know this then you should duplicate the setting. Next, the suite UI tries to execute all of your packages without a UI. However, that does not mean that you cannot present a UI. For instance when a user installs our application and selects to install the 'Main' server application, then I install SQL Server 2012. Part of the command line I provide specifies a reduce UI so that the user only sees the progress bar. For other exe packages I do not show a progress bar since those installations are very quick. If the /silent option is used with the package then I never show a progress bar. I would try to avoid showing a UI for your 'packages' as much as possible as you want to reduce the amount of interaction required by the user. To debug a suite installer use: /debuglog"C:\MyInstaller.log" /log"C:\InstallLogFiles\" debuglog is the log file for the InstallShield Suite wrapper. log is for the packages in your Suite project. Here you do not specify a log file name but just a directory. The file names are obtained by a setting for each package in your Suite project file. Unfortunately there isn't any type of debugger for the Suite project so we can step through the project and see where it is failing. 😞 Since you have EXE packages, the command line settings can vary per package. Hopefully you have information on these packages on how to install them silently and to generate log files. Below is an example I have for installing Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2005 SP1 Redist, which is an EXE: Hi, Thanks for your help. The issue of "Package Fail" error finally solved. The Exit Behavior condition for the packages was set to "Ask whether to continue the setup". This was changed to "Continue with setup", which resolved the issue. Now I have another issue. I am trying to add Radio buttons instead of Check Boxes in feature selection tree. Is it possible to do so? I tried to add a new page with just Radio buttons and deleted the Feature selection tree with default check boxes. I have tried all the conditions I could, but could not set them exact so that my Radio button selection and installation can be in sync. When I am selecting single Radio button for installing a single package all the packages under other Radio buttons are being installed. What all properties need to be set for Radio Buttons to sync with Install. *Requirement is specifically for Radio button. Checkboxes needs to be replaced. Thanks in advance for all your responses. ... View more

DLee65 wrote: I am not sure what you are doing, but I have a very successful SUITE package that does not produce this message. So I personally know that it works. Have you tried to create just a very basic suite package with one package, let's say ORCA.MSI? The process works in my experience, there is just something wrong with how your packages are configured. Trying to isolate the cause is difficult because we know nothing of what is included in your packages or what settings you are using. You only state that you set conditions to any|all|none, but just setting this does not create a condition under it. If there are no conditions under it then delete the reference to Any|All|None. I suspect that the action to show the message is internal to the suite executable, and it just utilizes the string to show on the message. I would not expect that deleting a string table entry would have any effect on an action. Have you tested this without any detection conditions? Keep at it, there is a good reason why you see the message. Hi, Thanks for your response. The projects that I have added are .exe files not .msi. All the packages that I have tried so far have given the same issue. Can you share the process how Install suite calls the primary and secondary windows during installation. Install suite does not allow to debug which have become my biggest misery. I need to understand the process flow of install suite working. This issue has been stuck with me from some time now. The only solution I have come up so far is replacing the failed error string with 'Would you like to Proceed" string.:) Appreciate your valuable responses. ... View more

DLee65 wrote: The detection condition for your package must evaluate to 'True' in order for the package install to be successful. The only way for the failure to occur that I know of is that when the install finishes the detection condition is false. For example, I get the following detection condition when I import the SQL Server 2012 Express SP1 prerequisite: Any None: Registry Comparison: Registry Key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\INSTANCENAME\MSSQLServer\CurrentVersion Value Name: CurrentVersion Comparison: LessThan Compare To: 11.0.2100.60 Conversion: Version 64-Bit Key: None: Registry Exists: Registry Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\AMAZINGCHARTS\MSSQLServer\CurrentVersion VAlue Name: CurrentVersion 64-bit Key: This is the detection it must perform to verify if the app should be installed, and once installed that it installed successfully. All I did here was import the PRQ file. What type of package are you trying to install that returns a failure? What detection conditions do you have in place? This information will better help us help you. 😄 The issue persists with all the packages I have included so far. The installation results are fine, the issue I have is this pop up saying that the installation process has failed(although it hasn't). The string : IDS_SUITE_PACKAGEFAIL is by default called at the end of each package installation. In the pop up if Yes is selected it automatically starts next installation without any glitch. Ho can I disable this string. I have tried deleting it from string editor still a pop comes up. For detection settings I have tried with all options: None/Any/All. It hasn't helped. Thanks for all the responses. ... View more

Hysteresis wrote: Make sure you have set the correct detection conditions for your packages. Still facing the issue. Changed the Detection settings one by one to : All/None/Any still the same issue is coming. Appreciate your help and quick response. ... View more

Hi, I am getting attached error every time a package(.exe) is installed using installscript project of Installshield 2014. The packages are installed fine just a pop coming through string editor. Kindly suggest how to disable the string and resolve this issue. Appreciate your help in advance. Regards, Niks ... View more