Rob,
  I know it can pass parameters but can it conditionally pass MsiProperty 
elements only if the value evaluates to something other than an empty string?

Jacob

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:11 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn and MsiProperty

The BA can do this. The wixstdba does.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Hoover, Jacob
<jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com>wrote:

> I have a need to allow customers to customize the behavior of the "main"
> MSI my bundle is installing. Is it possible to configure burn in such 
> a way that a command line parameter can be passed to a MsiProperty 
> (via <Variable Name="Foo" Overridable="yes" /> ) but then only pass 
> the MsiProperty if it's value is defined? If the engine currently 
> doesn't support this, I don't think it would be that difficult to 
> modify the MsiProperty schema to allow a SuppressEmpty attribute to 
> not pass the parameter if the value is an empty string. Also, would 
> burn support a transform in this manner as long as it is only changing public 
> properties?
>
> Thanks,
> Jacob
>
>
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