Hiding Dialogs with Tuner

[otaku91]

I am using Tuner that is part of Admin Studio 6 to create a transform for an installation (Business Objects 6.5). My intent is for the end user to run the setup file, and not have to interact with the setup program at all. I am having two problems.

The first problem is that I am unable to hide some of the dialogs in the install because they have custom actions. I can fill in the values with what they need to be, but I cannot hide the dialog from appearing when the install is run. How can I have the setup accept the information, and not require the user to hit 'next' in the dialog boxes?

My second problem is that I do not want to enter an absolute installation path into the properties of the dialog boxes in the transform (i.e. C:\Program Files\...) Is there a way that I can use a relative path (something like [Program Files Dir]\...)

Thanks in advance

[Christopher_Pai]

I have a vendor application similar to your experience. They put tons and tons of CA's into the dialog buttons so you almost get scared to change any of them. Basically I prepropulate the properties and disable the controls so the user can't change it but they still have to hit next next next. The install also supports a fully silent install ( setup /s /v"/qn" ) so it's no big deal.

[otaku91]

When I run the setup with those switches, what should happen? What dpes /s /v and /qn mean? Do I need an answer file to run a silent install?

Thanks

[Christopher_Pai]

Help and Search explains the command line arguments for setup.exe and msiexec. BusinessObject 6.5 is a big vendor so I'm pretty sure you'll find documentation with it that shows how to setup a silent installation. I havn't used the product since the old 5.0 days ( before it was an MSI install ) but eve then they had ways of passing values like RDBMSKEY to tell it to do an automatic install.

[otaku91]

OK, it seems that I am making some progress, thanks for the help. Here's what's happening:

I created a new setup.exe that applies the transform to the MSI. When I click through the wizard, accepting the defaults that I have setup, the install runs properly. When I use setup /s /v"/qn", the setup runs silently and installs some files, (it appears to be common files, .dlls, etc.), but no executables or shortcuts. Have you ever seen this before?

[ruth_g]

I've looked at the documentation and it says to use the setup.exe /s /v"/qn..." and it doesn't work, as said previousley it doesn't install most files - anybody figured out the problem?