Automatic repair after upgrade

[Frode]

Hi,
I am working with an 'Install new version first and then uninstall old version' installer where I have to do some serious "refactoring" of some Components. In this Components I have located several files with a shared key, and the file "holding" the key must be deleted. This in turn leads to several necessary files being deleted on the uninstall step.

The only way to solve this, as I see it, is to do an upgrade - then a repair.
If I could turn on automatic repair after the upgrade that would be nice.

Any suggestions?

[Daniel]

Hello,

In order to achieve this you can create your own BAT file which will launch your installation package in Repair mode using a command line like this:

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msiexec.exe /fa <product_code>

Please take a look on our "Command Line" article.

Also, you can run the related BAT file using a "Launch file or open URL" custom action with sequence scheduled on "Finish Dilogs Stage".

Let us know if this helped.

All the best,
Daniel

[Frode]

Thank you - I will give it a try

[Frode]

It worked, although AI 10.2 caused some problems. After some stumbling about how to use the File To Launch and Command Line properties I ended up with an invalid entry in the projectfile.

Something like
<ROW Action="LaunchFile" Type="2" Source="viewer.exe" Target="<target file>"[#repair.bat]"" Options="2"/>
at the same time the GUI just showed
"[#repair.bat]"
in the File To Launch property