I'm currently finding myself in a bind, where I wish to generate a
shortcut with a property value embedded within it. From the various
posts and observation, I note that the Shortcut table isn't
"formatable". As such, I can't use property references within the name,
description, etc fields. My first guess was to create a custom action
that would modify the in memory DB to format these properties on the
fly, but that isn't clean as I would have to manually create all of the
records (we can't modify the existing record data at runtime via a
custom action).
Since I plan on using instance transforms, and it is this property I
am looking to inject into these fields I ponder if it would make more
sense to enhance the instance transforms code to modify a variable list
of tables based on an additional attribute on the InstanceTransforms
element. Something along the lines of:
<InstanceTransforms Property="INSTANCEFOLDER"
InstanceTables="Shortcut;">
<Instance Id="Develop" ProductCode="*"
UpgradeCode="{????????-????-????-????-????????????}" ProductName="Foo
Develop"/>
...
For now, I could see this scanning for any table(s) provided in
@InstanceTables for the property defined as INSTANCEFOLDER and replacing
it with the value assigned to INSTANCEFOLDER via the Instance element.
Am I way off my rocker here? Is there an easier way of modifying the
shortcuts table? (I don't like having to have the shortcuts defined
multiple times one for each instance and using a condition.)
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