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Custom action failing after upgrade (20.3) due to invalid characters

Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:45 am

I have a custom action that has started failing after an upgrade to 20.3. For some reason what was previously parsed as apostrophes are now appearing as invalid character in custom action interface, which is also causing the install to fail (same reason). There is a better way of performing this specific action now but I can't go back through our releases and update them all, also it feels like something that could go wrong else where.

Post 20.3:
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Pre 20.3:
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Regards,
Sj

Catalin
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Re: Custom action failing after upgrade (20.3) due to invalid characters

Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:23 pm

Hello Sj,

I have tested this and can indeed confirm the behavior.

I have forwarded this to our development team and hopefully it will be fixed in a future version of Advanced Installer.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

Best regards,
Catalin
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rye
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Re: Custom action failing after upgrade (20.3) due to invalid characters

Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:42 pm

Hello,

Just to note that this also seems to affect message boxes and error messages:
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Thanks,
Rye

Liviu
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Re: Custom action failing after upgrade (20.3) due to invalid characters

Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:13 pm

Hello Rye and welcome to our forums,

Our development team is already working on a fix for this issue. I'm afraid there is currently no workaround to this problem.

As soon as the fix will be released we will notify you on this forum thread.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

Best regards,
Liviu
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Catalin
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Re: Custom action failing after upgrade (20.3) due to invalid characters

Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:14 pm

Hello,

This has been fixed in version 20.3.1 of Advanced Installer, released February 7th, 2023.

Best regards,
Catalin
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