You cannot set a property to the value of another property in that way.
That is necessary to prevent creating circular references. What you
should do is call a CustomAction that will set the value of VDDIR
property after MAINDIR has been set. You would have to do something like
this:
<CustomAction Id="SetVDDIR" Property="VDDIR" Value="[MAINDIR]webmain"/>
<Custom Action="SetVDDIR" After="AppSearch"/>
K-ballo.-
Nick Hennemann escribió:
*I have the following Property "MAINDIR" and it is populated correctly
from the registry....*
<Property Id=*'MAINDIR'*>
<RegistrySearch Id='AppInstallRegistrySearch' Type='raw'
Root='HKLM' Key='Software\OurSoftwareCompany\SoftwareName'
Name='Install Directory' />
</Property>
And then I have another property call "VDDIR" and I use the "MAINDIR"
property to help build the path for my virtual directory....however I
can see that instead of the path being built by replacing the MAINDIR
property with it's value it simply is leaving the path with
"[MAINDIR]" . Here are the properties as reported in the MSI log:
*Property(S): MAINDIR = C:\PROGRA~1\SoftwareDir\*
*Property(S): VDDIR = [MAINDIR]webmain*
* *
<Property Id='VDDIR'>*[MAINDIR]*webmain</Property>
*How do I use the value from one Property in another one? Any help
would be greatly appreciated. It appears that maybe it is defining
the property of VDDIR before it is getting the value of MAINDIR...if
so how can I ensure that MAINDIR is populated first. TIA.*
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*Here is an excerpt from the WiX tutorial that shows how to do it, but
I can't seem to make it work. Anyone able to get this to work? *
<**Property** Id="*INSTALLDIR*">
<**IniFileSearch** Id='AcmeFoobarIniFile' Type='directory'
Name='SampleRegistry.ini' Section='Sample' Key='InstallDir' />
</**Property**>
There might be cases when simply knowing the directory is not enough:
you have to look into the directory and make sure a given file exists
there. **Depth = n** can be used to instruct the installer to look
//n// levels deeper than the specified **Path.** Zero or a missing
**Depth** attribute means only to look in the specified folder, not
below it. We use square brackets in **Path** to tell the installer to
use the //value// of the //INSTALLDIR// property---bracketed names
will be looked up and if found, replaced with their actual value. If
not found, the string will remain unchanged.
<**Property** Id="FILEEXISTS">
<**DirectorySearch** Id="CheckFileDir" Path="[*INSTALLDIR*]" Depth="0">
<**FileSearch** Id="CheckFile" Name="Lookfor.txt" />
</**DirectorySearch**>
</**Property**>
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