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Henrique Mesquita

Hello,

This will be a big post, I will divide into topics to make things clear.

We are creating a new installer project that must act as the official replacement for an older, existing product.

We need the new installer to seamlessly take over, but I'm facing challenges with leftover resources ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hello Liviu,

Sorry for the late response, things went wild on work.

Using the approach:

Liviu wrote: You just need to run a script on the Init Events of the PreparePrereqDlg dialog. This should work.

worked, thank you!

Henrique Mesquita

Hello Liviu,

Thank you for your response.

I've tried your approach on how to do it, but unfortunately I couldn't make to work on our side because of the structure of our actual installer project.

By now, we will have to use the approach we started: installing the prerequisites and then checking ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hello Henrique,

In my searches, I found some users saying that sometimes, some properties (like Installing, OLDPRODUCTS and etc.) aren't populated in time. I have tested myself and displayed Installed, OLDPRODUCTS and UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE (this one just to check the test) on the installation ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hello everyone,
I hope you're all doing well.

So, we have an installer built with Advanced Installer. The installer consists of:

1. Main application;
2. Two .NET runtimes;
3. Nine Feature-based secondary applications (Nine full installers built with Advanced Installer as well).

Some important ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hello, Eusebiu.

First of all, I apologize for the delayed response.

As requested, I have sent an email with a link to download our project.

I look forward to your reply, and thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Henrique Mesquita

Henrique Mesquita

Good morning, Eusebiu

We have made the requested adjustments: a new property, "APPDIRCLONE", was created in the properties tab:

https://i.ibb.co/7SKNryT/propriedade-criada.png

A custom action was added to set the value of "APPDIR" to the new property "APPDIRCLONE"

https://i.ibb.co/vJdR45n ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hi Eusebiu,

Thank you for the explanations regarding the installation flow; I understand how it works now. However, unfortunately, the incident continues to occur even after configuring the prerequisite to run after the installation of the main package.

https://i.ibb.co/QJc5Zsb/AdvImg.png ...

Henrique Mesquita

Good morning,

I apologize for the delay in responding. We created a new testing project using version 22.0 of Advanced Installer, and the incident mentioned in the topic https://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=134532#p134532 is still occurring as previously noted.

In the testing ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hello,

Thank you for your response.

For the incident related to this topic, we managed to achieve what we needed in a different way. I appreciate your support.

Regarding the other incident (https://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=134532#p134532), we tested using version 22.0, but ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hello, Liviu

We are using version 20.7.1. We cannot upgrade to version 22.0 due to this incident:

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=134532#p134532

Where properties are not passed to "child" applications if the installation is silent.

Given these points, is it still ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hello,

I have a "suite installation" with several applications where I use custom actions that are executed before the installation of the child applications, as follows:

https://i.ibb.co/yXvwGNg/7f6b4ed2-00a8-435f-b946-36e1cc3e4184.png

When I perform the installation via the interface ...

Henrique Mesquita

Good afternoon, apologies for the delay in responding.

We need to pass the information to the already created .exe so that when the user executes it via UI or command line, the properties are already filled in without the user having to enter them.

Practical example:

We have a portal where the ...

Henrique Mesquita

Hello, I hope you are doing well,

We have an installer built with Advanced Installer where the user provides certain parameters during the installation process through the UI. We have a portal where users can download the installer and choose which parameters will be configured. Therefore, we need ...

Henrique Mesquita

Good afternoon,

Thank you for your response.

We conducted tests by installing the prerequisites before the main package, and the scenario remained the same, with no values in the properties.

Do you have an estimate for when the incident will be fixed/released? We need to use some functions ...

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