disappearing and inaccessible icons
I have an application I am creating an MST for since it already has an MSI.
The package builds and installs smoothly as long as you are the admin user.
If you are a normal user you can not see any icons in the menu but you can start the application by going into the directory and clicking on the executable.
Has anyone had this problem and found a workaround for it?
If I were using the scan method it would be easy to build icons for it but witht he MST all it does is read keystrokes.
Someone mentioned that you can do it through ORCA but I'm not familiar with that product though I can get access to it.
ej
The package builds and installs smoothly as long as you are the admin user.
If you are a normal user you can not see any icons in the menu but you can start the application by going into the directory and clicking on the executable.
Has anyone had this problem and found a workaround for it?
If I were using the scan method it would be easy to build icons for it but witht he MST all it does is read keystrokes.
Someone mentioned that you can do it through ORCA but I'm not familiar with that product though I can get access to it.
ej
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Posted by:
Ilikebananas
18 years ago
It sounds like you have a "per user" installation. You can test this by setting the ALLUSERS property to 1.
Just add ALLUSERS=1 to your commandline:
>msiexec.exe /i yourapp.msi TRANSFORMS=yourmst.mst ALLUSERS=1
If this solves your problem you can use ORCA (ORCA is like a sort of notepad for windows installer files) to add this property to the Property table.
I hope this helps.
Just add ALLUSERS=1 to your commandline:
>msiexec.exe /i yourapp.msi TRANSFORMS=yourmst.mst ALLUSERS=1
If this solves your problem you can use ORCA (ORCA is like a sort of notepad for windows installer files) to add this property to the Property table.
I hope this helps.
Posted by:
erjones
18 years ago
You test this on the command line just before using the appname.msi to install, after a successful install you then return to installshield and open the properties section and set "Allusers=1" or you need to use ORCA to set this parameter?
ej
ej
Posted by:
erjones
18 years ago
The icons are showing up now, I used 2 vice 1.
Thanks for the information
ej
Thanks for the information
ej
Posted by:
KPrinz
18 years ago
Hey,
way cool! And so simple, of course I didn't look for the icons in the install users context...
I just added ALLUSERS 2 to the Property table right inside the msi.
This is the solution I was trying to find using the keywords missing shortcut after msi install.
So this is my post to add these keywords to the thread and to tell everybody that it worked like a charm.
Cheers,
Konstantin
way cool! And so simple, of course I didn't look for the icons in the install users context...
I just added ALLUSERS 2 to the Property table right inside the msi.
This is the solution I was trying to find using the keywords missing shortcut after msi install.
So this is my post to add these keywords to the thread and to tell everybody that it worked like a charm.
Cheers,
Konstantin
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