Sounds like you are doing this in a merge module. Just add <Property Id="CommonFiles64Folder" SuppressModularization="yes"/>
It'll teach the compiler to not do that but also not create a row in the property table since you didn't give it any value. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: John Fry <j...@ifeats.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 6:47:11 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Square brackets in variable value Okay, thanks, it seems like the built-in MSI variables might be the way to go rather than grabbing it from the environment variables. When I try using the MSI variables, however, the value that ends up in the MSI is: [CommonFiles64Folder.2312FADD_90E2_487F_B4BC_5B3F1489FB3C]\path\to\folder;[CommonFilesFolder.2312FADD_90E2_487F_B4BC_5B3F1489FB3C]\path\to\folder;[~] Wix seems to be appending our Package ID to the variable name in an attempt to make it globally unique (i.e. seems to be thinking it's referring to a variable we've set elsewhere in the Wix files rather than a global MSI variable), do you know if there's any way to stop Wix from appending the GUID? I looked around to see if there was an escape sequence I could use but didn't find anything. Thanks for your help! John On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote: > On 27-Sep-10 12:55, John Fry wrote: >> The value that gets inserted into the MSI when we get the error is: >> >>[%CommonProgramFiles]\path\to\folder;[%CommonProgramFiles(x86)]\path\to\folder;[~] >>] > > Which is correct -- it looks like MSI doesn't like the parentheses. > >> And you're saying that an equivalent statement would be: >> >> [CommonFiles64Folder]\path\to\folder;[CommonFilesFolder]\path\to\folder;[~] > > Yes. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
