I have the custom actions scheduled like this: <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="CreateScheduledTask" After="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed</Custom> <Custom Action="RemoveScheduledTask" Before="RemoveFiles">Installed</Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence>
I struggle with scheduling I don't "get it", but this works for me in the scenarios I have to support. I may have missed something in the scheduling that the list regulars can point out/correct. -----Original Message----- From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:james.macdiar...@eds.com] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 1:09 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Scheduled Tasks using Wix Hi Phil, In what part of the code did you put this? I have some other things I may need to do during the uninstall. I didn't realize you could have Custom Action Codes do this. Thanks very much! Jim -----Original Message----- From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:23 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Scheduled Tasks using Wix Wouldn't be complete without the custom action to remove the task for uninstall. <CustomAction Id="RemoveScheduledTask" Return="ignore" Directory=" MyDirectory " ExeCommand=""[SystemFolder]SCHTASKS.EXE" /DELETE /TN " My Scheduled Task Name " /F" /> -----Original Message----- From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:19 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Scheduled Tasks using Wix Hi Jim, I think we both found the same wix snippet to manipulate scheduled tasks. I had to shuffle it around a little, and this is what I ended up with: <CustomAction Id="CreateScheduledTask" Return="check" Directory="MyDirectory" ExeCommand=""[SystemFolder]SCHTASKS.EXE" /CREATE /SC DAILY /TN "My Scheduled Task Name" /ST 00:00:00 /SD 01/27/2006 /TR "\"[#FullPathToMyExe]\" type=Foo1 url=[FooURL] user=[FooUSER] password=[FooPASSWORD]" /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" " /> I needed the escaped quotes around the label/name you want to give to your scheduled task. If you notice the ... "\" ... before the FullPathToMyExe, I had to double-up on the quotes since I need to pass command line args (type, url, user, password) to my scheduled task, the slash between the soubled-up escaped quotes is needed to re-escape it for the schtasks.exe program. This works for me on WinXp, Vista, server2003 currently untested by me on server 2008. -----Original Message----- From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:james.macdiar...@eds.com] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:51 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Creating Scheduled Tasks using Wix I found some code to create scheduled tasks during an install. I'm having trouble with one where I have to pass the following xml string on the command-line. XML string is "<DIRECTION>UP</DIRECTION>" Here is the code that creates the scheduled task: <CustomAction Id="CREATETASK_CC_CIS_FILE_CREATION_UPLOAD" Return="check" Directory="ScheduledTasks" ExeCommand="[SystemFolder]SCHTASKS.EXE /CREATE /SC DAILY /TN Run CC <DIRECTION>UP</DIRECTION> /ST 00:00:00 /SD 01/27/2006 /TR D:\apps\nfts\NFTS V3 Batch Processors\FireBatch\FireBatch.exe /RU [%USERDOMAIN]\[LogonUser] /RP" /> Is there a way to pass that as a string and not have votive or wix look at that string as xml? Thanks, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- -- _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- -- _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users