Francesco, After some experimentation I found that the problem occurs after using the "Detect SQL Instances" component in InstallAware. The customer's system is Windows Server 2008 standard 32 bit edition. As soon as the detect SQL instances returns the Installer no longer parses any o the...

That's what I did my testing with in the above test projects. Since our installer uses the native engine template now.

The problem with your approach Francesco is that it requires a user installing a update to an already installed application to re-select the install location for the program. It just doesn't look very good to the end user, as the program is already installed. They don't want to move it so the instal...

If it isn't a condition or symptom you already have seen come up in the past then you can't yet because I don't have enough info to help you even begin to look at it. :) I'm going through right now trying to build a basic installer that uses the same features the problem one uses up until the dialog...

That's the hard part. A simple script I haven't been able to reproduce it. There must be something in between that is setting it off specific in the features this install is using, but I haven't been able to narrow it down yet.

I forgot to add I am using InstallAware 2012 and the install uses the Native Engine set to true.

Has anyone run across an issue with strings and variable assignments not working correctly on Windows Server 2008 Standard 32 bit? I have one customer's system which the installer was not properly parsing the $TITLE$ or apparently other assignments using that $<Variable Name>$ method. The symptom wa...

Aviv,

It has been a few weeks since the last update. Have you guys been able to determine the cause of this issue yet?

Thank you,
Chris

Aviv,

Any news on this? I was curious if you were at least able to confirm the reproduction of the issue as you had deleted your earlier reply to the thread.

Thank you,
Chris

Also as a side note if I remove that set variable it makes no difference. InstallAware still does not retrieve the correct TARGETDIR value from the previous installation.

What version of InstallAware are you using?
If you have IA10 or newer there are while/wend and repeat/until script commands to implement loops inside of the script which can be nested inside if statements.

As a reference I connected to my work machine to get the text of the only set to the TARGETDIR at the "Setup User Interview" portion of the script. [DEFINE REGION: Setup User Interview] Set Variable NATIVE_ENGINE to TRUE if Variable MAINTENANCE Equals TRUE GoTo Label: Maintenance else [com...

No just as in the example script the $TARGETDIR$ is only being written to just before the dialogs if upgrade is not true and if it is a new install. The example project I attached only has the one set variable for targetdir in it just as our original application and in both InstallAware doesn't reta...

Any news on this yet Aviv? Thank you for looking into this for me.

Giaviv, I have produced a basic project which just prompts for destination during initial install and then installs a text file. The upgrade displays the TARGETDIR value at the time of the RECOMMENDEDUPGRADE test section of the script in a messagebox then it will go on and remove the original versio...