Thanks. That helps. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:28 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using properties in a WiX file
Not all columns in the MSI Database are "Formatted". In the case below the Feature.Title column is marked "Text". That means whatever you put in that column is displayed verbatim. Andrea Adams wrote: > Hi folks - > > This is a very fundamental question, but what I think should be happening, > isn't. Within the <Product> tags, I define a property: > > <Property Id="FOO" Value="My Value" /> > > When I try to use that property in a feature title, for example: > > <Feature Id="ProductFeature" Title="[FOO]" ... > > > When I build and run the MSI (I'm using WiXUI_FeatureTree), I see "[FOO]" as > the title of the feature instead of "My Value". > > For the life of me, I can't figure out what's happening. I think this is the > same fundamental reason I can't get environment variables. I must be > misunderstanding some basic concept. > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > > Andrea > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
