Scripting

there is a myriad of ways to do this. Is this part of a packaging team setup? Can you detail more about your requirements I have stacks of scripts for automating word / excel from msi. not sure what it is your asking for..

yes this is part of the msi packaging

John, I think the OP wants things the other way round, probably to document MSIs.

@OP, look up 'WindowsInstaller.Installer' on MSDN, there's everything you need to know there, in terms of the object model. Then download the Platform SDK (I don't think the Windows Installer SDK is available separately any more). There are sample scripts in there which shoud you how to access the various tables. Bear in mind that, in general, they are quick-and-dirty scripts with no worthwhile error-handling, etc., etc.

Do u have a vb script for this. Please help me with an example...

1) First u read property value from property table say "ALLUSERs=1"

2) Temp.doc already contains a word "ALLUSERS"

Here the vbscript need to find the property "ALLUSERS" from the msi table and write the value "1" of the property in the temp.doc.

Thanks.

No, I don't. I have a *ton* of similar scripts but, as you will have read in post #4, you can get scripts which would form the shell of what you want from the Platform SDK.

looks like someone it too lazy to fill out his packaging docs himself ;)

no i just wanna understand if there is a way to write a script like this...

Hi Pavan,

Check out MSI Report Generator and Microsoft Word Scripts for some tips