3 replies to this topic

[Christoph]

All,

I've a basic MSI project with following data:

My mainINSTALLLEVEL=100(default).
My setupdesign looks like this:

- FeatureA

• FeatureA.1: InstallLevel = 0(just setting as default value)
• FeatureA.2: InstallLevel = 0(just setting as default value)

- FeatureB

• FeatureB.1: InstallLevel = 200
• FeatureB.2: InstallLevel = 200

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On feature A.1 I placed the condition "(&FeatureB.1=3) AND NOT(!FeatureB.1=3)"
On feature A.2 I placed the condition "(&FeatureB.2=3) AND NOT (!FeatureB.2=3)"

I did this with the meaning that FeatureA.1 will be installed when FeatureB.1 is selected and that featureA.2 is installed when FeatureB.2 is selected. I don't need visual feedback within the custom selection dialog since the subfeatures of feature A are unvisible but I can't manage to get it to work.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here or is it simply not possible to make to different subfeateres(with different parentfeatures) dependent of each other.

Maybe it is not possible to manage this with defining conditions and that I need to write installscript but I want to hear your meaning first.

Thanks in advance for any usefull info.

[Stefan Krueger]

It won't work this way.

[Christoph]

I want feature B to make my featureselection dialog more "userfriendly".
If I don't have feature B, I needed to create something like this(and this is not what I want):


FeatureA

• Documentation
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Italian
  • Spanish
• Tutorial
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Italian
  • Spanish

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For this reason I want my feature collection look like this:

-FeatureA

• Documentation
  • English(=hidden)
  • French(=hidden)
  • ...
• Tutorial
  • English(=hidden)
  • French(=hidden)
  • ...

-FeatureB

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Italian
• Japanese

So, when the user selects EnglishFeature out of LanguagesFeature, I want that the English Subfeature out of the documentation and Tutorial features will be selected(off course only when the documentation and tutorial features are selected theirself).

Do you think this is possible to manage??

[Stefan Krueger]

If your users should be able to select multiple languages (and not just 1 out of 6) then you need to adjust the final feature selection after this dialog (on the Next button for instance) using either control events or a cuszom action. the disadvantage is that the required size display on the feature selection dialog will not be accurate.
Alternatively you could have a separate dialog for language selection that you dispplay before the feature selection dialog.
This limitation is a result of MSI's strict tree hierarchy for features.