When I've used customactiondata struct in the past, i have only needed to pass the information to one script, where I can access the data and then USE it. However, with a managed custom action, you can't appear to "index" through multiple values supplied via CustomActionData - you need to split them into individual actions first. For instance, with a Set Property in the Execute sequence (after CostFinalize), Pass CAD to a custom action called CAD with 3 properties, like so: [PROP1];[PROP2];[PROP3] Then that deferred custom action you specified must do this (this is powershell): $cad = get-property -name CustomActionData trace-info -LogMessage $cad $splitArray = $cad.split(";") $prop1= $splitArray[0] $prop2 = $splitArray[1] $prop3 = $splitArray[2] However, what do you do if you then want to use those 3 properties as parameters to a managed custom action? I could not find any way to set this variable data back into variables, but have them accessible to actions in the deferred stage. Am i missing something? This seems like a major limitation to this functionality.  ... View more

This is still an issue with IS Spring 2012 - I have trouble seeing how this is anything other than a bug, you can't not include the merge module but still run it's custom actions, that makes no sense, it's an atomic entity. Has a bug been logged for this issue?? This has been referenced in many posts going back, most recently by a quick search: http://community.flexerasoftware.com/showthread.php?201494-Merge-Module-Custom-Action-Unacceptable-behaviour-!!!&p=478025#post478025 In case another description is needed of the bug, having an msi include a merge module conditionally will not regard the conditions of the merge module (whether it's being installed or not!!) when checking whether to run its custom actions. You result with an action that executes when the merge module should not be installed. ... View more

Hi, There is an XML file used by dependent software that needs to be edited during install/uninstall. The XML File Changes should be able to do this, and is almost capable. Two issues I am having are: 1) (Major) - The order of the children appears to be alphabetical, instead of what is specified inside of the installer. This is critical because xml files can conform to a schema, order is not always independent. This is causing things to fail. 2) (Minor) - The parser does not recognize cases to use for tags with no content, so it replaces everything in the file with >. Not critical, since it's equivilent, but certainly not necessary. In addition, any information on where this information is in the Direct Editor would be helpful - the XML tables I saw had nothing close to the XPath statements that were in the read only box inside the view. I searched around on the forums and google and found a little bit about the second issue, written in 2008, and may have found something related to the first one (think it said attributes, though), but little else. Anyone know a fix/workaround, or do I have change to not use this convenient feature?? Thanks, Matt ... View more