Hi, There are two ways in which a program can be uninstalled: 1) the program is uninstalled from Control Panel → Add/Remove Programs. In this case you can't use custom dialogs. 2) you can also uninstall through the Maintenance phase(Modify,Repair,Remove). The MSI will enter the Maintenance phase sel...
For running chained packages you need to have installed on your system at least Windows Installer 4.5.
Systems which have Windows Installer 4.0 or earlier version will not support this feature.
Hi, Only MSI files can be added as chained packages . However, you can add the prerequisites that you need for a certain MSI this way: - create the MSI file without including in it the software prerequisites - add the MSI file to the main installer, along the other MSI files - in the main installer,...
Hi, For a custom message to appear you must do the following modifications: - go to ui_en.ail file, from the install path of Advanced Installer, and add the following line: <STRING id="Error.2893" value="Here is the error message that will be displayed."/> - this is the line that will contain the er...
"CODE: SELECT ALL" is not an option from Advanced Installer.
This represents a feature of the forum to present pieces of code.
If you click “SELECT ALL” all the code written bellow will be selected, so you can copy it, if you desire.
Here is a tutorial for patching you product .
Please , while creating the packages pay attention to the Patching Rules or your patch will fail to execute.
Hi, I'm afraid that Advanced Installer doesn't support this directly. However you can try this: - Create a New Dialog in the Dialogs page. - Add a Edit Box to that dialog with the property set to: [SERVER_NAME] - In the Edit Box you can enter the name of the server, the name will be passed on to the...
Hi, The package can be configured to run on a non-administrator system. The first thing for doing that is to make the following setting: - go to Install Parameters page, in the Installation Options group, there is the Installation Type option - select from the combo box " Per-user only ". Also your ...
Hi, You must have to following condition : (REMOVE="ALL" AND (NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE)) set in the Expression field of the Execution Condition group from the Custom Action Properties page. This condition will run the custom action if an uninstall is performed and no upgrade will take place. If an u...
This should solve the problem. However, if the problem still persists, please send us the .aip file of your project and a verbose log file to support at advancedinstaller dot com so we can investigate it.
Hi, To do so, follow these steps: - create a new file search in the Search Page, named MSI_SEARCH for example - here set the value of the Path from Directory Properties to [SOURCEDIR] and select the slave MSI as the file to be searched. - go to Custom Actions page right click on Commit → Show Standa...
There is a How To for what you need here. This How To uses “Application Folder” as a location for the files that are to be installed , but in your case you can use the “Common Application Data” folder from the Files and Folders page.