Updater Questions

[kjullion]

Hi,
I have the following questions about the Updater tool.

1) it seems it's possible to silently "check for an update" using the Updater tool (using /silentall command line option), but where can I get some information on "silently installing" the available update?

2) how do I test (& re-test) when the minimum value for the "Update Options" --> "Check Frequency" is a day. I'd like to set it to 1 or 2 minutes during testing so that I don't have to change the date/time on the test machine or wait for a day to be within the "time-to-check" window....maybe I found the answer? Should I use the following option?

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/checknow -minuseractions

3) where are the "Remember my credentials" (that is the User name: and Password:) values saved to if a user chooses to enter their HTTP download credentials when prompted. Can this authentication window be by-passed if I store the credentials ahead of time in an INI file for example?

4) is there an example somewhere about how to customize the "Found updates" screen? For example, how would I hide the "Configure Options" link?

Thanks in advance.

[Daniel]

Hello,

1) it seems it's possible to silently "check for an update" using the Updater tool (using /silentall command line option), but where can I get some information on "silently installing" the available update?

In order to achieve this you should add a silent command line in the "Command Line" field from your "Updates configuration project -> Updates page -> Properties" tab.

2) how do I test (& re-test) when the minimum value for the "Update Options" --> "Check Frequency" is a day. I'd like to set it to 1 or 2 minutes during testing so that I don't have to change the date/time on the test machine or wait for a day to be within the "time-to-check" window....maybe I found the answer? Should I use the following option?
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/checknow -minuseractions

You can use a command line like this:

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/silent -nofreqcheck

3) where are the "Remember my credentials" (that is the User name: and Password:) values saved to if a user chooses to enter their HTTP download credentials when prompted. Can this authentication window be by-passed if I store the credentials ahead of time in an INI file for example?

Please take a look on our "Updater To Handle 407 - proxy" thread which debates a similar issue.

4) is there an example somewhere about how to customize the "Found updates" screen? For example, how would I hide the "Configure Options" link?

Unfortunately the "Configure Options" hyperlink cannot be neither hidden nor disabled on our Updater dialogs. Maybe we'll add this improvement in a future version of Advanced Installer. Thank you for your suggestion.

All the best,
Daniel