turns out you have to set bvOpt1 parameter to true. The doc for SdFinish does not mention this. It indicates this is a return/out parameter indicating the user choice but it is a in/out parameter... you can use it to set the default selection as an IN parameter  too   ... View more

folks, appreciate any input. ... View more

thanks for you help. It works for install scenario. But not for uninstall. More specifically, below is how we perform some uninstall tasks before the files get removed. I have a InstallScript type Custom Action which invokes an event handler function such as below in setup.rul. function UnInstallTasks1(hMSI) begin end; When this UnInstallTasks1 function  is invoked,  FeatureIsItemSelected is not able to detect that any of the features are installed locally. Hence I cannot perform uninstall task for features begin uninstalled. I have placed the custom Action after Sequences -> Installation -> Execute -> RemoveEnvironmentStrings. With you help, the install works. But not the above uninstall scenario. how can I detect which features were installed that are being uninstalled? So I can do the needful. BTW, we are using the above approach to perform uninstall tasks because that is the way to make automatic upgrades work.  If we perform uninstall tasks in OnMaintUIBefore, automatic upgrades will not work. This is something InstallShield had confirmed and had recommended that we take this custom Action approach.  This approach would work for both below cases: - simply uninstall the product that is installed. - when installing a newer version and using automatic upgrade, the custom action will invoked the function allowing us to perform some uninstall task for the existing version that is being removed during the upprade. For our project that does not have features, this approach works. But now we need to add features and so  we need to detect which feature is being removed.  Note that at this point I am not doing automatic upgrade but simply trying to uninstall the existing project but not able to detect the features that are being removed. thanks in advance. Appreciate your help to get this to work.   ... View more

thanks very much. I will try it out and get back to you. ... View more

Folks, appreciate if anyone can help out with this... ... View more

I am running into one problem now with respect to  IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE property. I have added a Major Upgrade item and specified product version 7.0.0 as the 'Minimum Version' to do the upgrade. But even if I have version 6.0.0,  IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE is still set to 'Yes'. Why is it not set to 'No' Appreciate any help. ... View more

thanks. Can I please ask how I can check for  IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE property from install script? Do I call 'MsiGetProperty' ? If so, what can be the value of  IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE? true or false? yes or no? Or is  IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE a boolean and if so do I use  an 'if' condition ? for example,  if ( IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE) then endif; ... View more