Impoved account selecting dialog

[Ivan The Coder]

Hi,

I have a propostion to improve user/group selection dialog. Currently at v11.8 AdvancedInstaller shows groups and users created on machine it's running on. Despite that there are already implemented automatical localization for groups and users based on properties, it's absolutely not obvious that there are such feature, just by looking on dialog (especially for novice users). It would be great if just after "Accounts" root, there will be a branch named "Automatically localized", where all USR_* and GRP_* properties will be listed with current local translation in brackets.
Something like this:

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Accounts
    |-- Automatically localized
        |-- USR_ANONYMOUS [Anonymous]
        |-- USR_GUEST [Guest]
        |-- GRP_USERS [Users]

Moreover there is a list of well-known SIDs used in Windows (both for groups and users), you can list them, user selects for example group "Users" (SID: S-1-5-32-545), and then during installation all actions are performed using that SID instead of plain group name string. Backwards of such method is that you should take into account a fact, that not all currently well-known SIDs where existing on previous versions of Windows (for ex. SID for group "Users" was added only in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008).

Best regards,
Ivan The Coder

[Daniel]

Hello Ivan,

I've added your notes in our feature requests list and maybe these improvements will be considered in a future version of Advanced Installer. We'll update this thread when some improvements will be made.

Thank you for your suggestions.

All the best,
Daniel

[Dan]

Hello,

This improvement has been added in version 15.0 of Advanced Installer released on June 28th, 2018.

Best regards,
Dan