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Richard_Styer · ‎Feb 23, 2015

Thanks for the help jlynch11. I did not realize that Prerequisites were not available for the Visual Studio Limited Edition unless you purchase a license. we are fortunate that the 2011 prerequisites will hopefully be adequate for our needs for the time being. I copied some of the .NET prerequisites into the C:\Program Files(x86)\Installshield\2013LE\SetupPrerequisites directory but the Redistributable tab still showed that they "Needed to be Downloaded". So I checked the box and selected it anyway. It started to go out to download and then failed because we do not have a connection to the internet. Apparently, that triggered it to update the list. After responding to the failed download, the Redistributable tab was repainted and now the copied prerequisites are shown as installed locally. NOT the most intuitive process but I think I am in business for now. Thanks again Richard

Richard_Styer · ‎Feb 18, 2015

Can anyone tell me where to find the installation files for the InstallshieldPrereqs and InstallshieldPrereqs_dotnet? I am trying to configure Installshield Limited Edition 2013 to work inside of Visual Studio 2013 Professional. The problem I have is that I need to use Installshield on a network that has no connectivity to the Internet (my company does not allow any internet connection whatsoever on the network that we use for development. We have a separate network that has internet connectivity that we use to download product such as Installshield which we then port to the inside network via thumbdrive. I had previously found and downloaded the InstallshieldPrereqs.exe and InstallshieldPreReqs_dotnet.exe as standalone installer (these are also used to setup a Standalone Build of Installshield). But now I can not locate these files anywhere for any Installshield product especially for Installshield Liimmited Edition. Could anyone provide me with a link or process for getting the Prerequisites? Also if you can point me to any description of how to get Installshield Limited Edition to recognize the Prerequistes after they are installed ( I have the old prerequuisites but I can't get Installshield LE 2013 to recognize them in the installation folders. Thanks for any help that you can provide. Richard

Richard_Styer · ‎Sep 04, 2012

After a lot of digging, I believe I have figured out how to write the Install Exec condition. I found the reference below is another post. To successfully run a custom action that is run from an installed file, you must ensure that the file is installed locally using a conditional statement: If the custom action is sequenced before RemoveFiles—Run the action only if the component was installed locally. (?ComponentName=3) If the custom action is sequenced between RemoveFiles and InstallFiles—Run the action only if the component was installed locally. Do not run the action on an uninstallaton. (?ComponentName=3) AND NOT($ComponentName=2) If the custom action is sequenced after InstallFiles—Run the action only if the component will be installed locally. ($ComponentName=3) The ComponentName is the component where is associated with the source file. From this I was able to define a condition for my Custom Action which runs an application like "myexecutable.exe. The condition is simply: ($myexecutable.exe=3) So far it seems to be working such that the custom action is only executed when the condition is met that the executable was installed locally. Hope this helps other newbies like myself. I guess it should be fairly obvious thath this is the way it works but then most of the time after you find a solution, the solution does look obvious. Thanks Richard

Richard_Styer · ‎Aug 31, 2012

I am been digging a bit to try to figure out how to get the custom actions to run on specific SetupTypes and I think the solution might be in defining a condition for the custom action. I don't know how to identify the Component (executable that is the custom action) in order to build a condition. This is what I done so far. I have an executable "runSometihing.exe" which I have added as a component file to be installed in some "runFeature" which will be included in the "runServer" SetupType. This component is not included in the other "server" setupTypes. Now, I added the Custom Action to the Custom Action View to run the "runSomething.exe" an defined it to run during the Install Exec sequence. But what to I put in the condition for the Install Exec sequence to test if the component is included (installed)? How do identify this component in the condition? I may not be on the right track yet but if I am can anyone give me some hints on the condition builder to tell if my component has been installed. Thanks for the help. Richard

Richard_Styer · ‎Aug 31, 2012

I have just started to use Installsield 2011 Professional to build an installation of our product since last week. I have previously used Microsoft Visual Studio's built in tool but have not used Installshield itself. Our product can be installed in two configurations. One configuration installs all the application executables and two databases plus other data files on a single target platform. The other configuration is more of a tiered structure with different executables installed on several servers within a local network. For example, the databases and several executables are installed on a Database Server platform, and the end user executables are installed on a User platform. We actually have as many as a dozen or more servers with six different server setup installations. We do not want the different server to have the entire project installed if they do not need it for their purpose(we do not want to create the databases on servers that do not serve the database).We do not use web based applications or need to install over the internet at this point (we actually are prohibited from connecting to the internet). To build the installer, I am trying to create one Installshield InstallScript MSI project which will have SetupType defined for each type of server plus a SetupType for the Standalone installation. I am not sure if this is a feasible design to handle this type of installation or if I will need to build separate installers for each type of server. My major problem at this point is in defining shortcuts and custom actions that only apply to one particular SetupType. I can not find anyway to set the SetupType or Feature that a shortcut or custom action should be limited to. For example, I have several custom actions to configure SQL Server and build one of the databases. My custom actions are built as execuable console applications that could be used seaparately from the installer. I would like these custom actions to only be executed during the "Install" and not the "RollBack" or "Uninstall" processes. When I add the custon actions to the InstallScript Msi project, they are executing for every setup type and for the "Install" and "Uninstall" phase of the installer. My questions are: How do I limit the custom actions to execute only during "Install"? How do I specify which "SetupTypes" a custom action should be run on? How do you build Shortcuts that only get created for certain SetupTypes? Do I have to build special "installer" friendly executables in order to use them as custom actions? One other related question. I have changed the InstallScript to use the SdSetupTypeEx dialog instead of the SdSetupType dialog which is the default. It defines a string "svSetupType" variable in OnFirstUIBefore function. How and where do I use the selected svSetupType to control which files are moved during the installation? Is there any sample code that shows how to use the SdSetupTypeEx? I appreciate any help that anyone can give me as "newbie" to Installshield. Thanks for your help in advance. Richard

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Re: Prerequisites download for offline installation

Prerequisites download for offline installation

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Building Conditions for Custom Actions

Assigning Custom Actions to SetupTypes

Re: Prerequisites download for offline installation

Prerequisites download for offline installation

At least part of the answer

Building Conditions for Custom Actions

Assigning Custom Actions to SetupTypes