You would need to add bal:Overridable="yes" to that element to allow burn to set it from the command line.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Syam Pinnaka [mailto:sy...@microsoft.com] Sent: 13 November 2012 06:52 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] commadline parameters to bootstrapper How can I read and set a "unknown" commad-line parameter to a Variable? The below format seems like isn't working. <Variable Name="RmsLocation" Type="string" Value="tk5-iam-07" /> -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 10:35 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] commadline parameters to bootstrapper Yes. The BA gets all the "unknown" command-line parameters and can do whatever it wants with them, such as set a Variable that is passed to an MsiProperty. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Syam Pinnaka <sy...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Is it possible to pass commandline parameters to the bootstrapper > application like the way we can pass them to standard .MSI packages? > I would like to pass them to one of the chained .MSI. This will make > it flexible to use different configuration values without having to > rebuild the package. > > Syam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from > a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, > databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day > Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
