Software Deployment

Hi all,

I am in the middle of what i thought was going to be a simple single shortcut msi.
The shortcut points to a file that is located on a network share (the Z:\ drive). The full path is z:\scunthorpe\grpdata\cc&i\data\rhythm\fmd\absolve\absolve.exe.

I have declared a property for this path and called it FMDPATH. I tried creating this property through the "Set Property" Custom Action and also in the Property table but neither seem to work.

Please see the details below -

Property table - >
FMDPATH = z:\scunthorpe\grpdata\cc&i\data\rhythm\fmd\

The 3 fields of the shortcut get populated, i.e. Target, Arguments and Working Dir.

Target -> [FMDPATH]absolve\absolve.exe
Arguments -> [FMDPATH]status.rvw
Working Dir - > [FMDPATH]

My problem is this -
When i install my application the shortcut gets installed, but the FMDPATH in the Target field doesn't resolve correctly. It doesn't seem to like the fact that there are more than 8 letters in "Scunthorpe". I would have thought it was a problem with the longfilename but the property seems to get resolved correctly in the "Start in" field.

The result in the shortcut properties is as follows.

Target : z:\scunthor\grpdata\cc&i\data\rhythm\fmd\absolve\absolve.exe z:\scunthorpe\grpdata\cc&i\data\rhythm\fmd\status.rvw
Start in: z:\scunthorpe\grpdata\cc&i\data\rhythm\fmd\

Any ideas?
I'm stumped! I've never even been to Scunthorpe!!!

Cheers,
Mark