If your custom action could talk to the server, why not just make your application generate a machine unique id and ask the server for the information. Or you could do that from the installation.
If you just want to gather an id you can use a UI page to do that or pass a parameter to the MSI if you have no UI. When you have this information in a property you can do many things with it. For example use it as a service parameter. -----Original Message----- From: Jørn Jensen [mailto:j...@syse.no] Sent: 17 November 2011 11:07 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Per user install Thanks for your response. It's a very small customization. I want to pass over the user credentials. Not necessarily directly, maybe just a unique ID which I can use as an argument to a custom action in the installer, which in turn requests the user credentials from a server. The binaries and packaging will remain unchanged. After the installation is complete and the user computer is restarted, the application is supposed to be run using the user credentials as arguments. - Jorn -----Original Message----- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: 17. november 2011 11:47 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Per user install It would be helpful if you give us more detail on what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to do a small amount of customization per installation (i.e. as each user installs). Or are you trying to make custom editions, ie. An installation package per customer, e.g. customizations for a large company. How will these be different? -----Original Message----- From: Jørn Jensen [mailto:j...@syse.no] Sent: 17 November 2011 10:18 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Per user install Hi, I need to make an installer that somehow contains user-specific information. I could compile a new installer for each user, but that would take way too much time.. My first thought was to serve the installer .msi-file with unique filenames for each user, but I can't figure out how to get the filename to a custom action which in turn fetches the user information. Also I'm new to WiX so this might be the wrong approach all together. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! -- Best regards, Jorn System Administrator Syse.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
