Software Deployment

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I'm not sure if you did it wrong or it I'm misunderstanding the steps you say you took- but: You are supposed to add a property named ISSETUPDRIVEN to the property table- not to create a new table with that name. You should add a entry to the existing Property table with this name and value.

Also, this is not a 100% solution- I've seen it not work. What application are you working with here?

I did it wrong, but I added it to the property table now and i can start it without the setup.exe but then it runs silent, with no dialogs at all.
And that is not good, I want the dialogs.

I have tested not changing anything to OnCheckSilentInstall and I have deleted the entry, no change.
But in your text it says to add a condition that will always resolve to false, can you tell me more about what to type there?
the program I'm working on is called MiniTab R14,

Deleting the line and ensuring a conditional always resolves to false will have the same affect- sounds like this isn't going to work for your particular package. If you should find a solution, please come back and share!

A conditional would be to add an "If" statement before the line and an "End If" after it. For the condition on the "If" you would simply enter one that would not be true. Deleting or commenting the line out- it is all the same in the end.

Sorry I couldn't help more,
Bob

I was glad to run across this thread. I have several packages that force me to use setup.exe. The techniques described here worked for one of my packages, TNTmips 6.9. But another package, ERDAS Imagine 8.7, did not have the OnCheckSilentInstall entry and I could not get that package to run without using setup.exe. Where did you find these settings? I am using Orca to edit the .msi files.

did you find these settings

http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.asp?articleid=q108166

Also to aid in your InstallShield "fun" here is the setup.exe command line reference:

http://helpnet.installshield.com/robo/projects/installshieldxhelplib/IHelpSetup_EXECmdLine.htm

hello,

i'm having trouble with Crystal Reports XI Pro. This uses a setup.exe to run the MSI file.
I'm trying to follow your suggestions, but no luck.
I've done this step:

1) Add the property ISSETUPDRIVEN to the property table via the Direct Editor and give it a value of 1.

But as for this step, there is no custom action called "OnCheckSilentInstall".
2) Add a condition to the "OnCheckSilentInstall" custom action in the InstallExecuteSequence via the Direct Editor that will always resolve to false or remove the custom action from the sequence.

I am using AdminStudio 6. Usually it will alert me when a legacy setup needs to be converted to an MSI. But not with this app. I know I need to make a transform, but I need to get rid of that setup.exe dependency to get this thing to work. Please help if you can. Thanks.