Properties are not persisted. You need to have authoring to do this. Generally, there is a Registry component to save the information to the registry, and a RegistrySearch to recover it. Rob even has a blog on persist patterns although the URL escapes me at the moment.
-- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -----Original Message----- From: chennam [mailto:chatrapathi.chen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:30 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Clear property value on uninstall Hi, I am making my Installer to Install into specific folder location instead of Programfiles using a Property INSTALLLOCATION. Ans I pass its value through command line during Installation. MSI (c) (18:98) [08:04:53:170]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding INSTALLLOCATION property. Its value is 'D:\Websites\CBUDirectUAT'. But When I Installed previously version of MSI on same machine the INSTALLOCATION property value was set to 'D:\Websites\CBUDirectUATAlt1' . Now I uninstalled previous version from (ARP) and installing the new version with new property value for INSTALLLOCATION='D:\Websites\CBUDirectUAT'. But the installer is installing into same old location D:\Websites\CBUDirectUATAlt1 instead of new one. See below for log the new version MSI is changing the INSTALLLOCATION property value to old one even though I passed new one. Action 8:04:53: AppSearch. Searching for installed applications Action start 8:04:53: AppSearch. AppSearch: Property: INSTALLLOCATION, Signature: REMEMBERPROPERTY MSI (c) (18:98) [08:04:53:248]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Signature 3: -2147287038 MSI (c) (18:98) [08:04:53:248]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying INSTALLLOCATION property. Its current value is 'D:\Websites\CBUDirectUAT'. Its new value: 'D:\Websites\CBUDirectUATAlt1\'. Action ended 8:04:53: AppSearch. Return value 1. I am Bit urgency with UAT. Can any one please help me to fix it and how to clear previous property one after uninstall. See below How i am saving the INSTALLLOCATION and help me out any statement need to be added to it <Product> <Property Id="INSTALLLOCATION"> <RegistrySearch Id="REMEMBERPROPERTY" Root="HKCU" Key="Websites\CBUDirect" Name="Remembered" Type="raw"/> </Property> <CustomAction Id="SAVEINSTALLDIR" Property="CMDREMEMBERPROPERTY" Value="[INSTALLLOCATION]"/> <CustomAction Id="SETINSTALLDIR" Property="INSTALLLOCATION" Value="[CMDREMEMBERPROPERTY]" /> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="SAVEINSTALLDIR" Before="AppSearch"></Custom> <Custom Action="SETINSTALLDIR" After="AppSearch">CMDREMEMBERPROPERTY</Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> <Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="INSTALLLOCATION" /> <Feature Id="ProductFeature" Title="CBUDirectMSI" Level="1" Display="expand" ConfigurableDirectory="INSTALLLOCATION"> <Component Directory="INSTALLLOCATION"> <RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Websites\CBUDirect" Name="Remembered" Value="[INSTALLLOCATION]" Type="string" /> <RemoveFolder Id="CleanApplicationFolder" On="uninstall"/> </Component> <Feature Id="MainContent" Title="CBU Website" Description="The CBU website content" Level="1"> <ComponentGroupRef Id="CBUDirect" /> </Feature> </Feature> <CustomActionRef Id='SAVEINSTALLDIR' /> </Product> <Fragment> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder"> <Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="CBUDirect" > <Directory Id="WEBSITE" Name="Website"/> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Fragment> -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Clear-property-value-on-uninstall-tp7586377.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. 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