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peterk

I ran the script found on the link and It indeed shows that we have two product codes sharing one upgrade code for the product installed

ProductCode UpgradeCode Name
----------- ----------- ----
{A6BABACE-567C-4A6E-9786-87C4A275505E} {09D9A38A-66D7-4037-A43C-20CEF2CCDEF0} SCA Agent
{C0C45388-BFC2 ...

peterk

In our project we have a chicken/egg problem where during the first installation of our product we want to create the service but we don't want to start it. This is due to customer configuration that is needed on a settings file that after first installation, does not get changed on subsequent ...

peterk

So we have been using AI for awhile on our older project and we allow side-by-side installations with environment variables allowing for customization.

We have a new project starting from scratch using AI 21.7.1 and initial installation goes just fine. Version 1.0.0 installs and is doing great ...

peterk

Changing the sequence order in the Table Editor allows us to modify the file on disk and gets us past this issue. While I consider this solved, it will be a pain going forward for any engineer learning AI that they have to use the Table Editor for anything touching files that are set not to be ...

peterk

ordered-sequence-AI.png

This is our current order. The highlighted line is the custom action that fires that modifies the file. The one thing that we did do during the upgrade is we moved from having the custom powershell script go from inline to an external file that we call. In fact we moved ...

peterk

We upgraded to 21.5 from 20.0 and we are seeing a difference in behavior. We have a file that is set as not to overwrite during installation (upgrade).

Screenshot 2024-04-08 093435.png

This file is modified as one of our last custom actions by a powershell script. We can see in the logs and on ...

peterk

I actually have 3 bare .exe (docker that ships just a zip file with exe files) files that I need to somehow add a a prerequisite. I am not sure the best way to handle this. I want to have a condition for the version of the .exe so if a new updater has a newer version it will prompt for installation ...

peterk

We have a need where we want to modify the list of SQL scripts that are run as part of the installer. The names of the sql scripts change frequently as they contain versioning information in the title. So we need a way of attaching SQL Script Files to a known database server connection.

AI-SQL ...

peterk

After changing to use "Use file from Disk" our errors are now gone and we are able to finally sign our .exe

peterk

Now we are facing a new issue:

[ DefaultBuild ]
14:13:38 Building package: C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\96d08da23e9ead6f\Software_1.6.168.4378.exe
14:13:38 Prepare build
14:13:38 Detecting MSI incompatible resources
14:13:38 Preparing files
14:14:22 Creating CAB file(s)
14:14:23 Signing CAB file(s ...

peterk

What would be the suggestion then for achieving this goal then? Having a set of files within nested folders that I need to execute a custom action powershell script against? I am looking for solutions to work around the lack of functionality and its not clear to me what the best approach would be ...

peterk

We use TeamCity to build our product and we have just recently tried to enable the digital signature for our application. The certificate in the "store" is one that we created and appears to work just fine when we build our project through the UI.

When we build our product using TeamCity and the ...

peterk

Looking at: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/file-commands.html

There doesn't seem to be options to add temporary folders, only files. I cannot use the GUI to do this but have to use the command line. Ultimately, I am in need of adding a nested tree of folders containing files that will ...

peterk

After lurking through the forum, I am wondering further if there is no way the project automatically changes paths of synchronized files/folders which "should be" relative to the project file path.

Looking at post: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28487

So what would be ...

peterk

So I have a project.aip folder in
C:\builds\build_run_<num>\installer\project.aip

I have two folders that I want to synchronize in my project:

C:\builds\build_run_<num>\site1\folder1
C:\builds\build_run_<num>\site2\folder2
(where num starts at 1 when i created the project but will increment each ...

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Re: New builds of project not detected as upgrades

Start windows service only during upgrade

New builds of project not detected as upgrades

Re: File modified during custom action goes back to original content

Re: File modified during custom action goes back to original content

File modified during custom action goes back to original content

stand-alone .exe as a prerequisite

Add support for adding SQL Script File to command line interface

Re: Digital certificate expired but only for command line build

Re: Digital certificate expired but only for command line build

Re: Add temporary folders via the command line

Digital certificate expired but only for command line build

Add temporary folders via the command line

Re: Physical Source not updating to be relative to project file

Physical Source not updating to be relative to project file

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