Feb 11, 2016
12:44 PM
The "Install" button appears on the last panel before Install Actions are executed. Typically, that is the Install Summary panel but you can have it be something else. You may have other panels in your project after the "New or Upgrade" panel, but due to rules or a Jump action perhaps, at runtime your installer thinks there are no more panels to show before Install Actions are executed. -Jeff
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Mar 31, 2015
04:23 PM
There is a "Output Debug Information" action. Select "InstallAnywhere Variables" in the list of data to be output and select the "Output to the console (stderr)" checkbox.
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Nov 11, 2014
09:59 AM
FOr closure reasons: After searching the web and a bunch of testing we decided to go with limits of 1024 for XP/Server 2003 (Windows version < 6) and 2048 for Vista/Server2088 + (version >= 6).
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Sep 19, 2014
09:29 AM
Hi, I apologize up front because this is not really an IA question, even though I am dealing with it in an IA installer. I searched the web for answers but got conflicting info (at least I thought so). And I haven't received an answer from my MSDN post so I thought I'd give the IA forum a try. We have an installer that needs to add some directories to the Windows system environment PATH variable. What is the maximum number of characters PATH can contain? Do I need to care? Assuming I have a HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment registry key with PATH value that contains 1500 characters, running setx MYPATH "%PATH%" in a Win7 command prompt warns me the data being saved is truncated to 1024 characters. Yet there is no issue setting that same MYPATH key in the installer using a Set System Environment Variable or Set Windows Registry action. I guess, because we're dealing directly with the registry? If I do need to worry about the PATH length, how do I handle an embedded environment variable, say %HOME% (C:\my\home\directory) in my custom code? When I determine the length of PATH, do I use HOME's 20-character expanded string or do I use the 6-character string %HOME%? -Jeff
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Mar 17, 2014
04:39 PM
Maybe you have already figured this out but I'll post anyway how we handle it and maybe help others. We use a template.iap_xml project file checked into source code that has @VERSION_MAJOR@, @VERSION_MINOR@, @VERSION_REV@, and @VERSION_SUBREV@ tokens in place for the product's and components' versions. We use ant to build our installers. Ant loads a properties file containing the version (and other) properties. Ant first creates a modified.iap_xml that has the correct version numbers, then builds installer(s) from that. One caveat to this process is you cannot load template.iap_xml in the Advanced Designer because it doesn't like @VERSION_MAJOR@ . You must work in the modified project file and merge your changes back to the template before check-ins. Another option could be to use XSLT. -Jeff
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May 10, 2013
10:54 AM
Thanks for the reply but I am not importing the merge modules. I am installing from the merge modules at install time. And you are right, there is no API to do what I want. This is not the solution I was looking for but it may work for someone: You can specify a directory to the Install Merge Module action and it will install ALL MMs in that directory. So you could copy the user-selected MMs into a temp directory and install them from there.
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Apr 30, 2013
01:51 PM
Does anyone use Install Merge Module actions and can you do that using custom code? We have a plan to install from potentially 20 merge modules. The idea is a user would download the merge modules and run a suite installer that would detect the MMs and run them. I can get this to work by hard-coding all 20 of the the Install MM(Install time) actions, each with a file-exists rule. I would like to write some custom code to loop through a list of detected MMs and install them but I can't find any API to do that. The only API references to MergeModule is in BuildDistributionSettings and PropertyFileEncodedLoader. Does anyone have any idea how I can do this? -Jeff
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Mar 28, 2013
09:06 AM
The issue for us was some install actions were somehow not assigned to a component so they were not recorded for uninstall. In your Install Actions view, make sure the "Assign to" dropdown is set to Components and make sure all actions are assigned to a component.
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Nov 13, 2012
05:00 PM
We have a product (ver. 1.0) installer that creates Windows registry values under the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MyCompany\MyProduct\1.0. We have a servicepack installer (ver. 1.0.1) that updates files in the existing 1.0 installation. When I run our uninstaller, which is supposed to remove everything, not just the recent SP, it leaves behind the registry key HKLM\...\1.0 and its values and I get the following error on the final panel: Unable to remove registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MyCompany|983359||STRING| After the original 1.0 install, the uninstall registry .com.zerog.registry.xml has lines similar to this: And after installing our SP, those lines are missing. Has anyone seen this before?
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Feb 19, 2012
09:37 PM
I don't know the answer to that. I suggest you contact support with your question. -Jeff
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Feb 17, 2012
08:43 AM
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It's possible to edit the IA_HOME\resource\i18nresources\custom_en (or whichever language you need). I just changed the GenericInstallPanel.message property to, "Please wait..." and it looks fine. -Jeff
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Feb 01, 2012
09:03 AM
You can find all release notes at the InstallAnywhere page in the Document Center.
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Jan 30, 2012
12:40 PM
Thanks. That did it. I checked the small arrow next to the checkbox and it expanded.
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Jan 28, 2012
04:18 PM
We aren't atlking about the same thing. I open the Software Manager using the steps above. See the attached img. There aren't any platform tabs.
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Jan 27, 2012
03:55 PM
Thanks for the quick response Madhav Pai. I don't see any release notes. I opened IA2011 Advanced Designer, chose Help -> Check for Updates and the Software Manager appeared. However, I don't see where I can view or download SP3 release notes. -Jeff
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