One way would be to create a custom action with your favorite language. Have it pull the installed Acrobat version out of the 'Uninstall' area of the registry. Store that value (or part of it) in a property that you can then use to specify the directory. And don't limit it to 2015 or 2017. Someday there may be an Acrobat version 202x. ... View more

@shunt, 5 SAB licenses if you have Premier 1 SAB license if you have Professional ... View more

Just click on the down-arrow to the left of the feature ... View more

If I remember right, support for DemoShield was dropped in about 2008! If the machine you are running that on dies you will be out of luck. If I were you I would convert that DemoShield project to an InstallShield Suite project. I think it was in 2012 when I did that. ... View more

Well it turns out that doing what you want is not that simple 😞 From the InstallShield HELP obtained by searching for "System Search)"... Searching for the Presence of a Registry Key Windows Installer does not have built-in support for searching target systems for the presence or absence of a specific registry key. However, you can create a system search that looks for the default value of a specific registry key. If the default value is present, Windows Installer writes it to the system search’s associated property. If the system search fails to find the default value, Windows Installer leaves the property undefined. So that is not very useful because the default value is often blank. You might have to resort to doing that using your favorite type of Custom Action. ... View more

I set up a test project and got this to work for me. Perhaps your trouble is with the "Additional Options" selection. There are 2 radio buttons: Just Store the value in the property Store the value in the property and use the property in an Install Condition You must select the first one. If you select the 2nd one it uses that as a condition for installing the entire application... not just a single component. ... View more

Ahhh yes. I see it now. Unfortunately I am using InstallShield 2019 R#... so I can only look at it with notepad. I will try to set up a test project this weekend and get back to you. ... View more

I see 44 files.. but no .ism file. ... View more

What is the name of your property? I see no SQLSERVERFOUND property or anything like that in the log. I can't see what you are doing, So maybe try manually putting that property in the Properties table and get that to work first. ... View more

Log your install with this command from a CMD window and see what is going on. Setup.exe /v"/l*v \"%CD%\log.txt\""   ... View more

OK. Try: SQLSERVERFOUND="" or: Not SQLSERVERFOUND="" or if you want to base action on whether or not the string value contains a string: SQLSERVERFOUND><"2016" or: Not SQLSERVERFOUND><"2016" ... View more