How do I make the package install per-user or per-machine?

Answer

This How-To can be implemented only in an Advanced Installer Enterprise project.

The installation type (per-user or per-machine) can be set in the Install Parameters page. However, you can allow the user to select if he wants to install the package per-machine or per-user.

In order to use this functionality you need to make sure that the installation package doesn't install any resources in per-machine locations (for example in the "Program Files" or "Windows" folders).

You can give the user the option to set the installation type by following these steps:

• go to the "Install Parameters" page and set the "Installation Type" combo to Per-user only
• go to the Dialogs page and create a new dialog (or use an existing one)
• create on this dialog a radio button group with two radio buttons on it (one to install per machine, the other to install per user)
• set the property of the radio button group to RADIO in the Properties pane
• for the per-user radio button set the "Value" field to user
• for the same radio button set the "Selected" attribute to True (this can be done for the radio button you want)
• for the per-machine radio button set the "Value" field to machine
• select the "Next" button on the custom dialog and go to the Published Events tab
• add these control events:

[ALLUSERS]      [EMPTY]      RADIO="user"
[ALLUSERS]      1            RADIO="machine"

This way the ALLUSERS property will set the installation type based on the option selected by the user.