Software Deployment

Most packagers would use properties to populate a network-targetted shortcut, as (simplistically) the engine will try and retrieve the EXE and working directory when it goes to create the shortcut.

Why can not you create Substituting exe for this? specially shortcut which points towards network locations, i have handled through substituting exe method

have a look at this http://itninja.com/question/gnu,-freeware-and-shareware-programs-to-cloning9703

ORIGINAL: cygan

have a look at this http://itninja.com/question/gnu,-freeware-and-shareware-programs-to-cloning9703


what you want to do is this


go to the property table and create a property


property value
WORK | \\server name\unc path


go to the shortcut table and in the workingdir col change the value to WORK

that's all you need to do
cheers


I have nothing in my shortcut table at all.

And when I try and create entries, when I throw the package through validation I get an error

Could not write row in table.

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I have nothing in my shortcut table at all. So, how is the s/c installed? Are you copying it as an LNK file?

ORIGINAL: VBScab

I have nothing in my shortcut table at all. So, how is the s/c installed? Are you copying it as an LNK file?



Yeah just dumped a LNK file to the desktop. But I think the penny may have dropped :)

Yeah just dumped a LNK file to the desktop
if adding a link file make sure you add it as a non advertised shortcut