Software Deployment

Property values cannot resolve other property values, so you would need to use a custom action to set the value of the property instead.

Thanks for the help.

After reading your post I was able to figure out how to fix this. Here is what I did, just in case someone else has a similar problem:


1. Created a VBScript to set the CFGFILE to the path:



====== GetComputerName.vbs======



Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")



Dim ComputerName

ComputerName = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%COMPUTERNAME%")



If (ComputerName <> EMPTY ) then

Session.Property("CFGFILE") = "\\server.w3.corp.ca\Deploy\" + ComputerName + "\Install.cfg"

End If



====== END =====================





2. Added the script to the 'Binary' Table in the MSI with Orca with the following values:



Name: GetComputerName

Data: (Imported the GetComputerName.vbs file)



3. Added a custom action in the 'CustomAction' Table with the following values:



Action: SetCFGFILE

Type: 6

Source: GetComputerName

Target: (Blank)



4. Added an instruction to the 'InstallExecuteSequence' table with the following values:



Action: SetCFGFILE

Condition: (Blank)

Sequence: 2 (Wanted to make sure that it was set before it was used any where)



Thanks again,

Dwayne.

I'm always glad when users provide their solutions for others.

Cheers!

Are you for any chance writing the property value to the registry?
In that case you could always use \\server.w3.corp.ca\Deploy\[%COMPUTERNAME]\Install.cfg as the value in the Registry table.

I'm only using the value to grab an initial configuation file from a CIFS share.

Thanks for the hint though.

Dwayne.