[wix-users] Controlling Features in Silent Install

Ven H venh.123 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 22:52:04 PDT 2018


Thank you very much Rob.

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Rob Mensching via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Maintenance mode doesn't re-evaluate the conditions. You must use
> ADDLOCAL/REMOVE/etc. properties.
>
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> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Ven
> H via wix-users
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> Cc: Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wix-users] Controlling Features in Silent Install
>
> I am following the below link (2nd Option) from Fire Giant to control
> features in my silent install, but somehow, I can't get it to work.
>
> https://support.firegiant.com/hc/en-us/articles/230912227-
> Control-feature-states-for-silent-install-
>
> I have 2 features in my Product.wxs and based on the property being
> passed, I need to control them.
>
>  *<Feature InstallDefault="local" Description="!(loc.AppFeatureDesc)"
> Title="!(loc.AppFeatureTitle)" Id="AppFeature" Absent="allow"
> Display="expand" AllowAdvertise="no">*
> *       <Condition Level="1"><![CDATA[(INSTALL_APP = "1") AND (UILevel <=
> 3)]]></Condition>*
> *       <Condition Level="0"><![CDATA[(INSTALL_APP = "0") AND (UILevel <=
> 3)]]></Condition>*
> *       <ComponentGroupRef Id="AppCG" />*
> *    </Feature>*
>
> *   <Feature InstallDefault="local" Description="!(loc.DBFeatureDesc)"
> Title="!(loc.DBFeatureTitle)" Id="DBFeature" Absent="allow"
> Display="expand" AllowAdvertise="no">*
> *     <Condition Level="1"><![CDATA[(INSTALL_DB = "1") AND (UILevel <=
> 3)]]></Condition>*
> *     <Condition Level="0"><![CDATA[(INSTALL_DB = "0") AND (UILevel <=
> 3)]]></Condition>*
> *     <ComponentGroupRef Id="DbCG" />*
> *    </Feature>*
>
> I am invoking the Silent Install command twice for installing the features
> one at a time.
>
> *msiexec /qn /i MyMSI.msi /l*v App.log INSTALL_APP="1" INSTALL_DB="0"*
>
> The above command installs the App feature properly. Then I run the
> command again as below to install only DB feature, but it is not installing
> it.
>
> *msiexec /qn /i MyMSI.msi /l*v DB.log INSTALL_APP="0" INSTALL_DB="1" *
>
> Note: I tried passing INSTALL_APP="1" also in the 2nd command (instead of
> 0), but that also didn't help. The log file (DB.log), didn't have any
> errors.
>
> Can anyone please help?
>
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