[wix-users] Setting Checkbox value from command line

Edwin Castro egcastr at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 10:53:52 PDT 2018


You don't upgrade features. You upgrade products. You can select features
to be installed. You can also specified which features you want to not be
installed.

If you need to install 2 features and later you want to upgrade a single
feature, then you need separate your features into separate products that
can be upgraded separately.

--
Edwin G. Castro


On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Ven H via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Agreed James. Even in my UI, I haven't tested Upgrade.
>
> What I am not sure about is that during Upgrade, if I have to upgrade only
> one of the 2 features and if I specify the REMOVE with a feature Id, it
> will uninstall that feature (mentioned in REMOVE).
>
> Regards,
> Venkatesh
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:10 PM, James Buchan <
> James.Buchan at servelechsc.com
> > wrote:
>
> > If you want to include a feature, then put it in the ‘ADDLOCAL’ list.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you have 2 features and want them both, then (as Edwin put earlier)
> you
> > use:
> >
> > ADDLOCAL=AppFeature,DBFeature
> >
> > If you only want 1 then you would do
> >
> > ADDLOCAL=AppFeature REMOVE= DBFeature
> >
> >
> >
> > Your UI was already doing this logic in the ‘Next’ event.
> >
> >
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* 27 June 2018 17:05
> > *To:* James Buchan <James.Buchan at servelechsc.com>
> > *Cc:* WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > *Subject:* Re: [wix-users] Setting Checkbox value from command line
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot, James. As per the link, REMOVE will uninstall / remove a
> > feature. So, how can I selectively install a feature during Ugrade?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Venkatesh
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:18 PM, James Buchan <
> > James.Buchan at servelechsc.com> wrote:
> >
> > UI logic is not executed during a silent install.
> >
> > This article should help you
> > https://support.firegiant.com/hc/en-us/articles/230912227-
> > Control-feature-states-for-silent-install-
> >
> > I've always done my silent installs with the ADDLOCAL/REMOVE approach.
> > The one thing I would always recommend when dealing with
> > enabling/disabling features, is to always pass exactly what you want to
> do,
> > if you don't want a feature, put it in the 'REMOVE' list, then you know
> it
> > wont be installed/updated.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> Ven
> > H via wix-users
> > Sent: 27 June 2018 16:19
> > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > Cc: Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [wix-users] Setting Checkbox value from command line
> >
> > I have a Dialog like below.
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
> >   <Fragment>
> >
> >     <UI>
> >       <Dialog Id="SelectFeatureDlg" Title="!(loc.SelectFeatureDlgTitle)"
> > Width="370" Height="270" NoMinimize="yes">
> >      <Control Id="Title" Type="Text" X="15" Y="6" Width="250" Height="15"
> > Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes"  Text="!(loc.FeatureTitle)"/> <Control
> > Id="Description" Type="Text" X="25" Y="23" Width="280" Height="15"
> > Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes" Text="!(loc.FeatureDescription)" />
> >
> >         <Control Id="chkBoxAll" Type="CheckBox" X="50" Y="65" Width="110"
> > Height="17" Property="INSTALL_ALL" CheckBoxValue="1"
> > Text="!(loc.AllFeatureText)">
> >         <Publish Property="INSTALL_APP" Value="1"
> > Order="1">INSTALL_ALL</Publish>
> >           <Publish Property="INSTALL_APP" Value="{}" Order="2">NOT
> > INSTALL_ALL</Publish>
> >           <Publish Property="INSTALL_DB" Value="1"
> > Order="3">INSTALL_ALL</Publish>
> >           <Publish Property="INSTALL_DB" Value="{}" Order="4">NOT
> > INSTALL_ALL</Publish>
> >           <Condition Action="disable">(!AppFeature = 3) OR (!DBFeature =
> > 3)</Condition>
> >         </Control>
> >         <Control Id="chkBoxApp" Type="CheckBox" X="71" Y="85" Width="110"
> > Height="17" Property="INSTALL_APP" CheckBoxValue="1"
> > Text="!(loc.AppFeatureText)">   <Publish Property="INSTALL_ALL"
> Value="{}"
> > Order="1">NOT INSTALL_APP AND NOT INSTALL_DB</Publish>
> >           <Publish Property="INSTALL_ALL" Value="1"
> > Order="2">INSTALL_APP</Publish>
> >           <Condition Action="disable">!AppFeature = 3</Condition>
> >           <Condition Action="enable">!AppFeature = 2</Condition>
> >         </Control>
> >         <Control Id="chkBoxDB" Type="CheckBox" X="71" Y="105" Width="110"
> > Height="17" Property="INSTALL_DB" CheckBoxValue="1"
> > Text="!(loc.DBFeatureText)">    <Publish Property="INSTALL_ALL"
> Value="{}"
> > Order="1">NOT INSTALL_APP AND NOT INSTALL_DB</Publish>
> >           <Publish Property="INSTALL_ALL" Value="1"
> > Order="2">INSTALL_DB</Publish>
> >          <Condition Action="disable">!DBFeature = 3</Condition>
> >         <Condition Action="enable">!DBFeature = 2</Condition>
> >         </Control>
> >
> >         <Control Id="Back" Type="PushButton" X="180" Y="243" Width="56"
> > Height="17" Text="!(loc.WixUIBack)">
> >            <Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="CustLicenseAgmtDlg"
> > Order="1">NOT Installed</Publish>
> >           <Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="CustMaintenanceTypeDlg"
> > Order="2">Installed</Publish>
> >         </Control>
> >         <Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56"
> > Height="17" Default="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUINext)">
> >           <Publish Event="SpawnWaitDialog"
> > Value="WaitForCostingDlg">CostingComplete = 1</Publish>
> >    <Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="ConnDetailsDlg">NOT
> > INSTALLED</Publish>
> >           <Publish Event="NewDialog"
> > Value="InstallDlg">WIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED</Publish>
> >              <Condition Action="disable">NOT INSTALL_APP OR NOT
> INSTALL_DB
> > OR (((!AppFeature = 3) AND (!DBFeature = 2) AND NOT INSTALL_DB) AND
> > ((!DBFeature = 3) AND (!AppFeature = 2) AND NOT INSTALL_APP)) OR
> > ((!AppFeature = 3) AND (!DBFeature = 3))</Condition>
> >           <Condition Action="enable">(INSTALL_APP OR INSTALL_DB) AND
> > (((!AppFeature = 2) AND INSTALL_APP) OR ((!DBFeature = 2) AND
> > INSTALL_DB))</Condition>
> >            <Publish Event="AddLocal" Value="ALL">1</Publish>
> >           <Publish Event="Remove" Value="AppFeature"><![CDATA[
> INSTALL_APP
> > <> "1"]]></Publish>
> >           <Publish Event="Remove" Value="DBFeature"><![CDATA[INSTALL_DB
> > <> "1"]]></Publish>
> >         </Control>
> >       </Dialog>
> > </UI>
> >   </Fragment>
> > </Wix>
> >
> > AppFeature & DBFeature are the feature IDs. I need to have the ability
> for
> > Silent Install. But even when I pass INSTALL_APP="" and INSTALL_DB="1",
> it
> > is always installing the app feature also. I tried  INSTALL_APP="{}"
> also,
> > but still it installs the app feature. I also tried not passing this
> > property at all from the command line, but still no luck. Can anyone
> please
> > help me achieve this?
> >
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