file associations on per-user install

[aweber]

I saw in this thread that it wasn't available as of 7 years ago. I'm hoping this has changed and AI now allows us to perform file associations during a per-user/current-user install?

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This is performed in the HKCU hive (in one or two places), and would be highly beneficial to us!

Thanks

[Catalin]

Hello,

Did you test this and encounter any issues?

I have just tested a per-user only installation with a file association added in the MSI and it worked just fine - I did not encounter any issues during the installation.

Best regards,
Catalin

[aweber]

If you are an Administrator (or maybe even "Power User") on the PC, it will succeed. If you are only allowed to write to HKCU, it will likely fail.

To be clear, I did not try it yet, because that test will be difficult to setup other than using a Production/client-target PC, which I am reluctant to do.

[Catalin]

Hello,

Mhm, quite strange.

I have tested this as an admin user, indeed, but the installation was per-user and therefore it did not write to HKLM (otherwise, it would have requested admin rights).

I will try to test this from a normal user account and will report back - although I'm not sure it matters here as the setup already would request admin rights if it were to write to HKLM hive.

Best regards,
Catalin

[aweber]

Thank you for testing. The referenced link is, as mentioned, a few years old, but I didn't find any mention that this functionality was updated.

[Catalin]

Hello,

The referenced link is, as mentioned, a few years old, but I didn't find any mention that this functionality was updated.

You are indeed right about this and that's exactly why I tested this.

I have now tested this from a normal user account as well and I can confirm that this works - you are not prompted for admin rights and you aren't given any errors during the installation as long as your installation type is set to "per-user only".

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As we can see in the above screenshot, the .ext is associated with my EXE, as expected.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Catalin

[aweber]

Thank you very much for testing. I wonder when this feature/enhancement was added to the product?

Do you have an easy way to search release notes?

Thanks again!

[Catalin]

You are always welcome!

I wonder when this feature/enhancement was added to the product?

Do you have an easy way to search release notes?

Unfortunately, I'm not so sure when this was improved either - I have tried to have a look over our bug tracking tool and couldn't really find anything there.

It is possible that his has been an OS limitation that was fixed in the meantime as well.

Bottom line is, we should be happy that it works now.

Best regards,
Catalin