[wix-users] CA Based Feature Installations

[Marc Beaudry]

Hello All,

Thanks for your help, very appreciated, the 2 CA's one in
InstallExecuteSequence and the other in the InstallUISequence and setting
the Property to secure, worked, my features now get triggered correctly.

Regards,
Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Herman van Drie via wix-users
Sent: March-30-2021 11:20 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Cc: Herman van Drie
Subject: Re: [wix-users] CA Based Feature Installations

Schedule it before CostInitialize in InstallExecuteSequence.
At least, before all components are evaluated for install.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Rob
Mensching via wix-users
Sent: dinsdag 30 maart 2021 17:18
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Cc: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] CA Based Feature Installations

You probably want it scheduled in both sequences and you can run it in only
the first sequence (assuming you make the property secure as well). Log file
will show.


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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Marc
Beaudry via wix-users
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 7:48 AM
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Cc: Marc Beaudry <mbeaudry at matrox.com>
Subject: [wix-users] CA Based Feature Installations

Good morning all,

I have basic functionality that I can't get to work correctly, can someone
point me to documentation which will explain why, what I am doing is wrong.
If this is the wrong place to post this type of question apologies, where is
the correct place?

I have two features, but only one can be installed at a time, based on the
result of a custom action. If I hard code the property value
"INSTALLFEATURE" my MSI behaves correctly, but if I set the value through a
CA then none of my features get installed. The MSI can be ran silently,
which is why I chose InstallExecuteSequence and not InstallUISequence. My
guess is that it's a sequencing issue, but I am running my CA as early as
possible.

Here are the wix portions I am referring to: I left the two versions of my
condition syntax in case it helps.

<Property Id="INSTALLFEATURE" Value='A' />

<Feature Id="MYFEATURE_A" Title="Feature_A" AllowAdvertise="no"
Absent="allow" Display="hidden" Level="0">
  <ComponentGroupRef Id="FeatureAComponentsA"/>
  <Condition Level="1"><![CDATA[INSTALLFEATURE = "A"]]></Condition>
</Feature>

<Feature Id="MYFEATURE_B" Title="Feature_B" AllowAdvertise="no"
Absent="allow" Display="hidden" Level="0">
  <ComponentGroupRef Id="FeatureAComponentsB"/>
  <Condition Level="1">INSTALLFEATURE="B"</Condition>
</Feature>

<CustomAction Id="CADllUpdateFeatureProperty"
          BinaryKey="CADllBinaryID"
          DllEntry="UpdateFeatureProperty"
          Execute="immediate"
          Impersonate="no"
          Return="check" />
          
<InstallExecuteSequence>
    <Custom Action="CADllUpdateFeatureProperty"
Before="LaunchConditions"></Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>

Besides many google searches here is a reference I found:
https://medium.com/@willfsays/fun-with-wix-toolset-conditional-features-ab11
34b53dd5

Regards,
Marc


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