Command Line Feature Selection

[ometa joey]

Hi All,

I am trying to make a PowerShell script to automatically run the Advanced Installer setup. How can we automatic install or skip the installation of certain features from our Feature Selection Tree component?

We have a lot of features, where some of them have parents. I was thinking to pass them as properties like this:

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someExe.exe /qb /L*V C:\Temp\install.log APPDIR="$($settings.applicationDirectory)" ADFeature="false"

I have also tried some variations:

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FEATURE_ADFeature="false"
FEATURE=ADFeature="false"

Our feature AIP looks like the following.

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<COMPONENT cid="caphyon.advinst.msicomp.MsiFeatsComponent">
    <ROW Feature="ABE53E7EFB41529843DB0F4141C824" Feature_Parent="SAPFeature" Title="Visual C++ 2010 SP1 x86 (MFC Security Update)" Description="Visual C++ 2010 SP1 x86 (MFC Security Update)" Display="0" Level="1" Attributes="16" />
    <ROW Feature="ADFeature" Feature_Parent="SlaveFeature" Title="AD Interface" Description=" Display="23" Level="1" Directory_="APPDIR" Attributes="0" "/>
    <ROW Feature="ArchiveSystemObjectsFeature" Feature_Parent="DCSFeature" Title="Archive System Objects" Description="" Display="97" Level="1" Directory_="APPDIR" Attributes="0" />
    <ROW Feature="AuthorityServiceFeature" Feature_Parent="Services" Title="Authority Service" Description="" Display="89" Level="1" Directory_="APPDIR" Attributes="0"/>
    <ROW Feature="B63_41B8_9CB7_8C5E07C0FC18_" Feature_Parent="SAPFeature" Title="Visual C++ 2010 SP1 x64 (MFC Security Update)" Description="Visual C++ 2010 SP1 x64 (MFC Security Update)" Display="0" Level="1" Attributes="16" />
    <ROW Feature="BAMConfigFileFeature" Feature_Parent="BAMGlobalFeature" Title="Config File" Description="." Display="0" Level="1" Directory_="APPDIR" Attributes="0" Components="AI_CustomARPName AI_ExePath BAM.LogDir BAM_ODBC_DRIVER CORE_ODBC_DRIVER ConfigDirectory"/>
    ...

Hope someone has experience with this.

[Catalin]

Hello Joey,

In order to achieve that, you could use the ADDLOCAL property.

The ones that you have tried are not actual properties and that's why it is not working.

In addition to that, you could also condition each feature in the "Organization" page and then pass the condition in the command line - step 3 of the How to conditionally install a prerequisite based on the user selection? article.

Best regards,
Catalin

[ometa joey]

Hi Catalin,

I did it with the ADDLOCAL property where I pass a comma separated string of all the features. Works like a charm!

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ADDLOCAL=ADFeature,AuthorityServiceFeature

Thanks for your quick support!

[Liviu]

You're always welcome!

Glad to hear it worked.

Best regards,
Liviu