Installshield silent installation

[annie]

I am required to push out an off the shelf application to our users. The setup program uses Installshield. I have created a response file for this program and am able to run a silent install.

However, there are other customizations to consider and have built these all into a Setup Factory install.

When I execute the Installshield silent install with the "wait until finished" option selected, the setup continues on it's merry way even though the install is still running. I tried adding the \w switch, but I guess this only works for other Indigo Rose setups!

Do you have any suggestions as to how I can stop the installation from continuing until the installation is complete?

Thank-you!

[Luc]

Re: Installshield silent installation

I have the same problem here... When installing a 3rd party software using Installshield silently, my setup factory does not wait until it finishes. It just go on. What I have remarked, is that the silent install is creating a silent.log file when the InstallShield silent setup is finished. What I have done is a program (kind of a timer). I use the Execute file action to run this timer in a while loop and I check if this file is present every 5 seconds or so and I loop until it is there meaning the installation is finished and setup Factory can continue.

This is not an elegant way to do it but it works...

For Indigo Rose: By the way, it would be good to have a sleep action to pause the installer for a while in some situation... just a suggestion. Enumeration of registry keys would also be appreciated.

Regards,

Luc

[Corey]

Re: Installshield silent installation

Those are very good suggestions, you should add them to the suggestions forum and they might show up in a future version.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Lorne]

Re: Installshield silent installation

By the way, it would be good to have a sleep action to pause the installer for a while in some situation... just a suggestion. Enumeration of registry keys would also be appreciated.

I'm pretty sure both of those will get into a future version. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] (We've already built similar actions for another product...)

[Darryl]

Re: Installshield silent installation

I believe that there's actually a command line option that InstallShield use as the /W option we use for our installs. I believe it's -SMS.

You can find a list of some of their command line arguments here

I also found the following forum post with this information here

Hope that helps.