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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 overw...

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 all ...

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 disk ...

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-Scrip...

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) 1...

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. TIA

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 a...

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 woul...

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 tim...

peterk

To give you a scenario that I think fits a sync of temporary files: I have a folder c:/dev/artifacts which contains a changing set of files almost on a daily basis. In the artifacts folder we are constantly updating the files in there that contain python packages. We want those to be temporary becau...

peterk

So during our install process we have a custom action. This custom action is a powershell script that runs that uses $PSScriptRoot to help with pathing. So the directory structure during install looks like this: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\custom_stuff\script.ps1 Now script.ps1 references fil...

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