Thanks! My team mate found the web.config to be checked as read only. Woops! ... View more

Dan, not sure on how to tell that. But as a failsafe, I put Everyone And Users in the permissions both with and without the %USERDOMAIN. But none of the permissions are added. Very strange. DLee65 wrote: Do you know if the components that set permissions are using the newer InstallShield method or the standard MSI Lock Permissions table? If the standard Lock Permission table then Everyone should work for you but not 'Users' as it is not considered one of the 'well known' SIDs. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369774%28v=vs.85%29.aspx I forget when InstallShield implemented support for other SID. The only other thing that I can think of is permissions when running your install. Make sure you run the installer so that it has administrative rights this should grant permissions to change permissions on a child folder of Program Files(x86). ... View more

Also, it appears as though INSTALLDIR is being configured to Read Only by default. I can't seem to find how to un-check this property. Where is this setting at the folder level? ... View more

Here is what I have in the XML Editor: It is obviously adding the row for DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR which is now the one without double slashes and no trailing. But where the other row with the trailing slashes is coming from is boggling my mind. ... View more

Replied. ROFL... ... View more

Well.. Now I am closer than ever before. Now it is kind of working, however, my config file ends up with two rows: Thank you for all the help though. I am now almost there. I guess in the XML Editor I can add a remove line to remove the bad one? Not sure why I should have to do that though. ... View more

rrinblue22 wrote: Appears to be a problem with the custom action sequence. 1: Run the InstallScript Custom action and result is DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR property is loaded with INSTALLDIR value without trailing slash. 2: Run your custom action which does "\\" to "\" on DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR property Yea, that is what I am doing: ... View more

Well, that didnt work either. I keep getting the attached error when running the .MSI. It is referencing my custom action which has this code: Session.Property("DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR") = Replace( Session.Property("DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR"), "\", "\\" ) But that did work when the replace statement was replacing just INSTALLDIR. LOL... ... View more

Thanks. I will try it. Do I need another new property though to store the final value in? Or do I change this: Session.Property("DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR") = Replace( Session.Property("INSTALLDIRNOTRAIL"), "\", "\\" ) To this: Session.Property("DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR") = Replace( Session.Property("DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR"), "\", "\\" ) ... View more

So if I use this code: [CODE]function set_prop() STRING tmpINSTALLDIR; STRING svInstalldir[256]; NUMBER nBuffer; begin tmpINSTALLDIR = INSTALLDIR; nBuffer = 256; StrRemoveLastSlash(tmpINSTALLDIR); MsiSetProperty(ISMSI_HANDLE,'INSTALLDIR',tmpINSTALLDIR); end[/CODE] I have a few noob questions: 1) Do I just create a custom action and put this in? 2) If I remove the trailing back slash, are there ramifications elsewhere in the project that I need to account for? 3) How come when I add this InstallScript to my other scripts, it is not select-able when donig a new custom action based on install script? It doesn't appear in the drop down menu there. Man this should not be this hard just to remove a back slash. Right now, I have a custom action doing this: Session.Property("DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR") = Replace( Session.Property("INSTALLDIR"), "\", "\\" ) That is to make DOUBLE_INSTALLDIR have the value of INSTALLDIR with double slashes and it is working. But putting the trailing \\ on the end, which my config files do not have. ... View more

DLee65. I did something very close to this and now I am very close to having this fixed. The problem now is, it is writing the path with a trailing \\ because INSTALLDIR has a trailing \ But in the config file I am editing, there is no trailing \ Not sure if there is a way to tell it to not put the trailing \\. I have read this which has two different codes to remove the trailing backslash from InstallDir but I am not fluent enough in InstallShield to know how to implement this. https://flexeracommunity.force.com/customer/articles/en_US/HOWTO/Q106587 ... View more

I am having the same issue with trying to edit an XML .config file. The file, by default, has a file path with double slashes. If I set it to INSTALLDIR in the red outlined box, it just puts the install path with single slashes instead of double. Can anyone advize a way around this? ... View more