Unable to Change Property During Upgrade

[ameen.jinnah]

Hi,

I have a property as INSTALLATIONTYPE. For New Installation, the value of this property must be 1. I have set this in Install Parameters.
During Upgrade, I want this property to be changed as 2. I tried this using the Set Installer Property Value Control Event. But unable to achieve what I want. I'm not sure what I'm missing, Kindly guide me on this.
I have attached the API file.

[Eusebiu]

Hi,

To achieve this, you need to configure your "Set installer property" control event as in the example below:

• Property: INSTALLATIONTYPE
  Argument: 2
  Condition: OLDPRODUCTS

Can you test this and see if it works?

Best regards,
Eusebiu

[ameen.jinnah]

Hi Eusebiu,

I did as per your suggestion. Now the property changes its value for the Upgrade. BUT !
If there are 2 applications installed in the server, and I upgrade 1 only. Then When I try for New Instance Installation, this property is still shows value as 2. It did not change to 1. I need to upgrade all the installed instances, then only this property changed back to 1 for New Instance Installation.

Is there any way to correct this issue?
Thanks

[Eusebiu]

Hi,

I'm afraid that I do not fully understand your scenario. Can you please give me more details (maybe exemplify)?

Best regards,
Eusebiu

[ameen.jinnah]

Hi Eusebiu,

As per your suggestion the INSTALLATIONTYPE property changed as 2.

If I have more than 1 instance (for example 2 instance in a server) version 2.0.0. Now I build a new installer of version 3.0.0. I want to upgrade the existing 2 instances as well as install one more new instance (3rd instance).

STEP 1: When I upgrade the first instance in the server, the property is set as 2. This is correct.
STEP 2: Next I want to install new instance (3rd instance). Here the property is still 2. Since it is new instance I want INSTALLATIONTYPE as 1. This is not happening.

Instead of Step 2, If I upgrade second instance in the server to version 3.0.0 and then install new instance (3rd instance) the property becomes 1.

Is there anyway, I want to set this property as 1 even if there are any old version lies on the server.
Thanks.

[Eusebiu]

Hi,

For this, you can try to create a "Registry SubKeys Enumeration" extended search (i.e. INSTALLED_INSTANCES)in the "Search" page as in the example below:

• Criteria: Registry SubKeys Enumeration
  Registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Your Company
  Minimum: 1

Then, change the condition for the "Set installer property" custom action as follows: OLDPRODUCTS AND (INSTALLED_INSTANCES >< ProductName)

Best regards,
Eusebiu