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[cherukus]

I am using Basic MSI - Installshield Developer 8.0.
I want to prompt the user to Reboot his PC after he installed MSDE & APP.
I don't want to invoke the reboot when when he uninstalled the APP and also when he re-installed the APP.

I tried setting a flag in the ScheduleReboot in the Install Execute Sequences, but seems NO effect.

Schedule Reboot
Condition : ISSCHEDULEREBOOT Or MSDEInstalled

MSDEInstalled flag is set to Yes when the user installs MSDE, if not by default it is set to NO.

Appreciate any ideas !!!

[Stefan Krueger]

If the value of property MSDEInstalled is either Yes or No, then use this condition:
ISSCHEDULEREBOOT Or MSDEInstalled~="yes"
The ~ performs a case insensitive string comparison

[cherukus]

Unfortunately after I made this change, it is never invoking the Reboot.
I am not quite sure why it's behaving differently.

[Stefan Krueger]

In which sequence are you setting the MSDEInstalled property? Since it has lower case characters in its name it's a private property, its value is only available in the sequence where it was set. So if you set it in the UI sequence you cannot read it in execute sequence.

[cherukus]

Yep..you are right. I was not aware that it would be a private property.

How do I make this a public property so that I would be able to access the value in the Execute Sequence.

[Stefan Krueger]

Public properties must be in all capital letters

[cherukus]

It worked...Thank you very much.

[Glytzhkof]

Just a note: if your setup is run by a regular user with elevated rights not all public properties are sent to the execute sequence, only the properties enumerated in the SecureCustomProperties property. In other words I would add your custom property to this list:

Example: SecureCustomProperties: MYUPGRADE;MSDEINSTALLED

Info: http://msdn.microsof...es_property.asp