It looks like, at the moment, you will need to create your
own custom action to do this.
In WiX 2.0, the <Group> element is only for defining
a group to be referenced with <GroupRef> elements. These are for adding a
user (possibly created by the installation) to an existing group. The only
change for WiX 3.0 is that these elements are moved into the WixUtilExtension
extension's namespace.
You'd have to check whether the "Group" table created by
this element actually ends up in the final installer - I believe it does. Your
custom action could possibly then process this table to create the groups
(depending on install state of the component referencing it? - but you need
<User> and <GroupRef> elements to link back to a component). If you
need to just create a group (no users) you can't condition it on a
component. The Group table does have a componentId field, but unfortunately it's
always going to be null in the current implementation.
For the pattern of how to implement this, see sca.wxs for
the custom action definitions (ConfigureUsers, CreateUser, CreateUserRollback,
RemoveUser), scasched.cpp for the implementation of ConfigureUsers, and
scaexec.cpp for the implementation of CreateUser, CreateUserRollback and
RemoveUser, and scauser.cpp for all of the support code that actually
manipulates the user account.
It's something that would generally be useful, so consider
submitting it as a feature request to http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105970&atid=642717.
--
Mike Dimmick
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Jonsson L (AL/EAB)
Sent: 28 September 2006 11:04
To: WiX Listan
Subject: [WiX-users] Create user-groups during installation
Is this possible, if
so, how? I'm not talking about actual users, but
users-groups.....
I've been thinking
that the <Group>-element was made for this, but now when I've looked
a little closer, I've changed my mind. I'm currently using version
2.0.3309.0 of WiX, is there more documentation regarding this in later
versions?
/Jonas
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