I have a WiX installer that includes this directory declaration:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="ProgramFiles64Folder"> <Directory Id="MyCorp" Name="MyCorp"> <Directory Id="INSTALLFOLDER" Name="FlowApp"> <Directory Id="FLOW_COMPONENTS" Name="Components"/> <Directory Id="FLOW_CONFIGURATION" Name="Configuration"/> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory>
And I have a dialog that allows me to change the location of the installation folder:
<Fragment> <UI> <Dialog Id="LocationDialog" Title="FlowMaster 3000 server deployment" Width="370" Height="270" NoMinimize="no"> <Control Id="PathLabel" Type="Text" Text="Install folder" X="10" Y="30" Width="70" Height="15" TabSkip="yes"/> <Control Id="InstallPath" Type="Edit" Property="INSTALLFOLDER" Text="{80}" X="100" Y="30" Width="260" Height="15" />
This works fine when the location does not change, but when the user changes the location, although the INSTALLFOLDER variable is correctly changed, the FLOW_COMPONENTS and FLOW_CONFIGURATION variables retain their original paths. See Journal:
Action start 14:38:59: CostFinalize. MSI (c) (B8:B0) [14:38:59:308]: Dir (target): Key: INSTALLFOLDER , Object: C:\Program Files\MyCorp\FlowApp\ MSI (c) (B8:B0) [14:38:59:308]: Dir (target): Key: FLOW_COMPONENTS , Object: C:\Program Files\MyCorp\FlowApp\Components\ MSI (c) (B8:B0) [14:38:59:308]: Dir (target): Key: FLOW_CONFIGURATION , Object: C:\Program Files\MyCorp\FlowApp\Configuration\ Action 14:39:03: LocationDialog. Dialog created MSI (c) (B8:48) [14:39:07:302]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying INSTALLFOLDER property. Its current value is 'C:\Program Files\MyCorp\FlowApp\'. Its new value: 'D:\Program Files\MyCorp\FlowApp\'. Action start 14:39:37: ExecuteAction. MSI (s) (64:20) [14:39:39:652]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding INSTALLFOLDER property. Its value is 'D:\Program Files\MyCorp\FlowApp\'. MSI (s) (64:20) [14:39:39:652]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding FLOW_CONFIGURATION property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files\MyCorp\FlowApp\Configuration\'. MSI (s) (64:20) [14:39:39:653]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding FLOW_COMPONENTS property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files\MyCorp\FlowApp\Components\'.
This leads to an attempt to create subfolders in a folder that does not exist.
What should I add to change the flow of the installation folder path to my subfolders?
EDIT
The catalogs are full. One in a separate wxs file with a group of files compiled by Heat, and the other one like this:
<ComponentGroup Id="Configuration" Directory='FLOW_CONFIGURATION'> <Component Id="Install.json" Guid="MY_GUID" > <File Id="Install.json" Name="Install.json" Source="$(var.SolutionDir)Configuration\Install.json" KeyPath="yes" /> </Component> </ComponentGroup>
At first, I had groups of components that were referenced simply in my function:
<Feature Id="Everything" Level="1" Display='expand' ConfigurableDirectory='INSTALLFOLDER'> <ComponentGroupRef Id="Components" /> <ComponentGroupRef Id="Configuration" /> </Feature>
But now I have made them helper functions with my own ConfigurableDirectory attribute:
<Feature Id="Everything" Level="1" Display='expand' ConfigurableDirectory='INSTALLFOLDER'> <Feature Id="SubComponents" ConfigurableDirectory='FLOW_COMPONENTS'> <ComponentGroupRef Id="Components" /> </Feature> <Feature Id="SubConfiguration" ConfigurableDirectory='FLOW_CONFIGURATION'> <ComponentGroupRef Id="Configuration" /> </Feature> </Feature>
I see no difference in any way.