Serial Validation on uninstllation stage

[homam]

Hi;

i would like to implement the Serial validation part on the remove part rather than the install. to do this step i should shift the UserRegistrationDlg from the First time install to Maintenance part (which i couldn't do easily by drag and drop). for that reason i tried to implement the same UserRegistrationDlg on Maintenance part but i failed to attach (AI_VALID_SERIAL action) to the next button because it is not list box of the actions are empty.

could you please help me to do this urgent request to me, i will be highly appreciate any other suggestion that might help me to implement the serial validation on uninstall part in easier and more reliable way



regards
Homam

[Bogdan]

Hi Homam,

All the actions and the predefined dialog are added automatically by Advanced Installer in the project when you enable serial validation option.
You would need to manually edit the project from Custom Actions page, Table Editor page and Dialogs page too, with a lot of complicated settings that need to be manually configured.

This process is error prone and quite complicated even if you are an advanced user of our application.

Also, I don't understand why you would prefer to perform serial validation upon uninstall, would it be more suited to perform this operation during the install of the application?

Regards,
Bogdan

[homam]

Hi;

i almost did all the works related to what i want but just i still have one issue i need you help in order to fix it if you don't mind

I already activated Serial Validation and i create another GUI on the Maintenance side which is working perfectly just i want to skip the UserRegistrationDlg on the First time installation, i put a condition on the next button of the Welcome Dlg to skip UserRegistrationDlg but i faced an issue later while the GUI coping the files at Progress Dlg (error invalid serial Number) how can i bypass this error? in another way is there any parameter that i could set it manually in order to start the copying file without any issue

Regards
Homam

[Bogdan]

Hi Homam,

The error is appearing because another validation of the serial number is performed during the InstallExecuteSequence too.
This is performed by actions which are introduced in the package at build-time, so you cannot edit them in the project.

I don't understand why do you have the default serial validation support enable, since you recreated it manually from scratch, you should disable the option completely from Licensing page.

Regards,
Bogdan