Right now: use a built in variable or create custom BA that sets a variable by reading the environment or create a custom BA and control the package state more directly.
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Sheehan, Andrew < andrew.shee...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > Thanks Rob, > > Could you recommend an approach that will work with <Bundle> element? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:52 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] InstallCondition help on MsiPackage element > > Burn doesn't resolve environment variables today. A verbose log file > should > show you the condition being evaluated to true or false. > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Sheehan, Andrew < > andrew.shee...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I've tried so many ways to get this to work but have come up > empty-handed. > > > > Apparently I don't understand how the InstallCondition attribute works. > I > > am thinking that it will evaluate to either true or false, based on its > > expression; but, I haven't wrote it correctly. > > > > I have: > > > > <Bundle> > > .... > > <Chain> > > <MsiPackage Id="MsiPackage1" SourceFile="c:\targets\target.msi" > > InstallCondition="%USERDOMAIN ~= 'DOMAIN A'" Vital="yes"> > > <MsiProperty Name="type" Value="1"/> > > </MsiPackage> > > ... > > .... > > > > %USERPROFILE is an environmental property that I need evaluated at > > installation time, not compile time. > > > > I've tried using <?define?>, too. > > > > <?define targetDomain = $(env.USERDOMAIN)?> > > > > Looking for help or pointers on what I'm doing wrong. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > -- > virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
