Mark Knutson wrote:
> I have a large number of Find/Replace that I need to perform on files that 
> are part of the installation.  Rather than set the properties for the custom 
> action for each find/replace that needs to occur in type 51 Custom Actions, I 
> was wondering if I could use a custom table instead.  

Sure. A compiler extension would make it easy to author the rows.

> 1.  Within the Column definitions, what needs to be done to mark the columns 
> as containing file and property values?  I've tried the category attributes 
> however the values werent't being resolved and only should up as text. 
>  
>
> 2. Within the Data elements, how should the file/properties be represented?
>
>  
>
> 3. At what point in the installation process will the the values be avaiable 
> (when does my custom action have to be scheduled in order to have access to 
> the expanded file/property values?)
>   

It's not done automatically. You can use formatted strings to support 
[#fileId] syntax (and other substitutions) and use a function like 
WcaGetFormattedString to get the resolved value.

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