Wix Custom Action Property Not Immediately Available - properties

I have a Wix VBScript Custom Action that sets a Property, and then a publish event that is supposed to trigger based on the value of the set property. The issue seems to be that the property is not being set and in turn not triggering the next publish event. Has anyone successfully done something similar?
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"
xmlns:hsi="http://schemas.hyland.com/wix/UtilityExtension">
<Fragment>
<Property Id="FOO" Value="0" Secure="yes" />
<CustomAction Id="Test3" Script="vbscript">
<![CDATA[
MsgBox Session.Property("FOO")
]]>
</CustomAction>
<CustomAction Id="Test2" Script="vbscript">
<![CDATA[
MsgBox "Test"
]]>
</CustomAction>
<CustomAction Id="Test1" Script="vbscript">
<![CDATA[
Session.Property("FOO") = "1"
]]>
</CustomAction>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<UI>
<DialogRef Id="WarningModalDlg"/>
<Dialog Id="BaseLawsonWebServerDlg" Width="370" Height="270" Title="Lawson LOB Broker Relay Setup">
<Control Id="label" Type="Text" X="20" Y="50" Width="200" Height="16" Text="Test" TabSkip="yes" Transparent="yes" />
<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUINext)">
<Publish Order="1" Event="DoAction" Value="Test3">1</Publish>
<Publish Order="2" Event="DoAction" Value="Test2">FOO = "1"</Publish>
<Publish Order="3" Event="DoAction" Value="Test1">1</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Id="Back" Type="PushButton" X="180" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Text="!(loc.WixUIBack)"/>
<Control Id="Cancel" Type="PushButton" X="304" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Cancel="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUICancel)">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelDlg">1</Publish>
</Control>
</Dialog>
</UI>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
Event="DoAction" Value="Test1" fires, I've tested it. Event="DoAction" Value="Test2">FOO = "1" does not hit. Then Event="DoAction" Value="Test3">1</Publish> definitely hits and shows the message box with the default value.
Thanks ahead of time!

I figured it out! I was so used to the reverse order of UI Dialog Publish events that I did the same thing for Control publish events.
Control Publish events move in the the order of 1 to x.
The publish events should look like this instead:
<Publish Order="1" Event="DoAction" Value="Test1">1</Publish>
<Publish Order="2" Event="DoAction" Value="Test2">FOO = "1"</Publish>
<Publish Order="3" Event="DoAction" Value="Test3">1</Publish>

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Wix installer refresh page after custom action

I am looking for way to refresh current page after custom action.
My code
<Control Id="Config" Type="PushButton" .../>
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="SetConfiguration"></Publish>
</Control>
It can be after custom action, but I don't see that Session has such an opportunity, or just adding some Event to Control that will work.
Edit:
Ok I have somethink like this:
<Control Id="Config" Type="PushButton" X="120" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="Config" >
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="SetConfiguration" Order="1"></Publish>
<Condition Action="disable">EndConfig = "true"</Condition>
<Condition Action="enable">EndConfig = "false"</Condition>
<Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="IISconfiguration2">EndConfig="true</Publish>
</Control>
But how to create NewDialog after return result custom acion. Because it now do it in this same time. Set order on 1 and 2 dont work.
Try this
<Control Id="Config" Type="PushButton" X="120" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="Config" >
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="SetConfiguration">1</Publish>
<Condition Action="disable">EndConfig = "true"</Condition>
<Condition Action="enable">EndConfig = "false"</Condition>
<Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="IISconfiguration2">2</Publish>
</Control>
This is a known behavior in MSI native UI.
The best work around I have is to make a clone of the dialog and transition from the original to the clone dialog (or the clone to the original) so that it looks like the same dialog to the user but it's actually a different dialog and the data will be refreshed.
Example.
On SQLDlg1:
<Control Id="Test" Type="PushButton" Text="&Test" TabSkip="no" Default="yes" Height="17" Width="56" X="283" Y="195">
<Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="SQLDlg2">1</Publish>
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="ValidateDatabase">1</Publish>
</Control>
On SQLDlg2:
<Control Id="Test" Type="PushButton" Text="&Test" TabSkip="no" Default="yes" Height="17" Width="56" X="283" Y="195">
<Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="SQLDlg1">1</Publish>
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="ValidateDatabase">1</Publish>
</Control>
On the next dialog I also clear the property in case they click back.
<Publish Dialog="VerifyReadyDlg" Control="Back" Property="DatabaseValid" Value="{}">1</Publish>
<Publish Dialog="VerifyReadyDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value="SQLDlg">1</Publish>

WIX Popup dialog

I have two custom dialogs - dlg1 and dlg2. After user clicks NEXT on dlg1 another custom popup dialog with some text and OK button should be shown. After user clicks OK on this popup dlg2 should appear. I've tried a lot of things but the best of it just shows dlg2 on top of dlg1 and OK-popup.
You have to create a modal dialog which passes the user from the first dialog to the second. Actually modal dialogs are used to show a message and then return focus to the dialog in which the modal dialog was called. I don't know if you are breaking any installer rules, if you don't return focus to the calling dialog but it seems to work:
Code for dlg1:
<UI>
<Dialog Id="dlg1" ...>
<Control Id="firstText" Type="Text" X="10" Y="10" Width="200" Height="17" Text="First Dialog calls Modal Dialog." />
<Control Id="PopupButton" Type="PushButton" Text="Show Popup" Height="17" Width="56" X="100" Y="243" Default="yes">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="PopupDlg" />
</Control>
</Dialog>
</UI>
Code for PopupDlg:
<UI>
<Dialog Id="PopupDlg" ...>
<Control Id="OkButton" Type="PushButton" Text="{\Tahoma_Bold}OK" Height="17" Width="56" X="200" Y="175">
<Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="dlg2" />
</Control>
</Dialog>
</UI>
Code for dlg2:
<UI>
<Dialog id="dlg2" ...>
<Control Id="secondText" Type="Text" X="10" Y="10" Width="200" Height="17" Text="Now proceed." />
<Control Id="CancelButton" Type="PushButton" Text="Cancel" Height="17" Width="56" X="180" Y="243">
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Exit" />
</Control>
</Dialog>
</UI>
UPDATE
Implementing the solution above produces some problems. There is one workaround though, but it will render your code less readable. Let me first describe the concept behind the workaround before I post some code. Basically you are going to only have two dialogs: One which triggers the popup and the popup itself. In the popup, you do not open a new window, as described above, instead you return focus to the calling dialog. Additionally you change the state of a property. The calling dialog gets updated, based upon the property that has been set by the modal dialog.
To achieve this goal, you will have to add controls for each state in the calling dialog, one for the case the property has been set and one for the case the property has not been set.
Code for callingDialog:
<UI>
<Dialog Id="callingDialog" ...>
<Control Id="BeforePopup" Type="Text" X="10" Y="10" Width="200" Height="17" Text="Here is some text." Hidden="yes">
<Condition Action="show"><![CDATA[NOT PROP_SET_BY_MODAL_DLG]]></Condition>
<Condition Action="hide"><![CDATA[PROP_SET_BY_MODAL_DLG]]></Condition>
</Control>
<Control Id="AfterPopup" Type="Text" X="10" Y="10" Width="200" Height="17" Text="Popup was shown." Hidden="yes">
<Condition Action="show"><![CDATA[PROP_SET_BY_MODAL_DLG]]></Condition>
<Condition Action="hide"><![CDATA[NOT PROP_SET_BY_MODAL_DLG]]></Condition>
</Control>
<Control Id="PopupButton" Type="PushButton" Text="Show Popup" Height="17" Width="56" X="100" Y="243" Default="yes">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="PopupDlg" />
</Control>
</Dialog>
</UI>
Code for PopupDlg:
<UI>
<Dialog Id="PopupDlg" ...>
<Control Id="OkButton" Type="PushButton" Text="OK" Height="17" Width="56" X="200" Y="175">
<Publish Property="PROP_SET_BY_MODAL_DLG" Value="1" Order="1">1</Publish>
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return" Order="2">1</Publish>
</Control>
</Dialog>
</UI>
Found one more solution for this. It's to use WinForms dialogs from a custom action.
When user clicks NEXT button custom action is invoked:
<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUINext)">
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="SomeAction">1</Publish>
</Control>
In this custom action you can call WinForm dialog. And don't forget to set the check for the silent install mode to make sure that the dialog will not be showed during silent install:
[CustomAction]
public static ActionResult SomeAction(Session session)
{
if(Int32.Parse(session["UILevel"]) > 3)
{
var result = MessageBox.Show("Do something?", "Popup dialog", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
session["SOMEPROP"] = result == DialogResult.Yes ? "True" : "False";
}
return ActionResult.Success;
}

Stop setup error inside Custom Action With WIX installer

Can i able to stop the setup if any error display inside CustomAction. As i can able display error message inside custom Action and it's dispaly the error message but as soon as i click on ok button my next UI sequence form is appearing.How i will force user to finish button?
Adding my source code:
<Binary Id="BIN_CustomAction" SourceFile="CustomAction.CA.dll" />
<CustomAction Id="CA_CheckList" BinaryKey="BIN_CustomAction" DllEntry="CA_CheckList" Execute="immediate" Impersonate="yes" Return="ignore" />
<UI Id="MyWixUI_Mondo">
<UIRef Id="WixUI_Mondo" />
<UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" />
<DialogRef Id="UserRegistrationDlg" />
<Dialog Id="UserRegistrationDlg" Width="370" Height="270" Title="[ProductName] Setup" NoMinimize="yes">
<Control Id="ComboBoxMain" Type="ComboBox" X="124" Y="158" Width="241" Height="16" Property="LOCATIONNAME">
</Control>
<Control Id="Back" Type="PushButton" X="180" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Text="&Back">
<Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="LicenseAgreementDlg">1</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="&Next">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="SetupTypeDlg">1</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Id="Cancel" Type="PushButton" X="304" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Cancel="yes" Text="Cancel">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelDlg">1</Publish>
</Control>
</Dialog>
<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="180" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Text="&NExt">
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="RadioButtonCheck">1</Publish>
</Control>
</Dialog>-->
<Publish Dialog="LicenseAgreementDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="UserRegistrationDlg" Order="3">
LicenseAccepted = "1"
</Publish>
<Publish Dialog="SetupTypeDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value="UserRegistrationDlg">1</Publish>
</UI>
<InstallUISequence>
<Custom Action="CA_CheckList" Before="AppSearch">Not Installed</Custom>
</InstallUISequence>
[CustomAction]
public static ActionResult CA_CheckList(Session session)
{
if (installer.ListStatus == false)
{
// dispaly
Record record = new Record();
record.FormatString = string.Format("Error!");
session.Message(
InstallMessage.Error | (InstallMessage)(MessageIcon.Error) |
(InstallMessage)MessageButtons.OK,record);
return ActionResult.Failure;
}
else
{
return ActionResult.Success;
}
}
Add screen shot also proving once i click on Ok button of image(1) my next dialog i.e image (2) is appearing:- instead of what i need is Finish dialog when i am getting the error.
1)
2)
Any idea??kindly help me.
This is an old post but I'd like to answer the question in case somebody else finds this. In the custom action definition, CustomAction Id="CA_CheckList" BinaryKey="BIN_CustomAction" ..., 'Return' is set to 'ignore'. It should be set to 'check'.
It's all about returning the correct "error code" from the custom action. If you want to terminate the installation, return ActionResult.Failure from your CA.
Side note: displaying UI from inside the custom action is generally a bad idea - this scenario doesn't support silent installation the way it should go.

Checking on the click of next button whether the user has entered a value in textbox

I want to know how do I validate the entry in the textbox? I am making use of the wix toolset 3.5. What I mean is I should get a prompt or some message that says that you must enter the text (I have a name of the person here ) and the installation must not proceed without it.
You need to modify your UI element so that there is a conditional Publish tag that determines if the property attached to the TextBox is populated or not:
<Publish Dialog="NameSettingsDlg"
Control="Next"
Property="ErrorMessage" Value="You need to fill in your name!"
Order="1">
NOT NAME_PROPERTY
</Publish>
<Publish Dialog="NameSettingsDlg"
Control="Next"
Event="SpawnDialog"
Value="InvalidSettingsDlg"
Order="2">
NOT NAME_PROPERTY
</Publish>
<Publish Dialog="NameSettingsDlg"
Control="Next"
Event="NewDialog"
Value="VerifyReadyDlg">
</Publish>
where the "InvalidSettingsDlg" is defined as:
<Fragment>
<UI>
<Dialog Id="InvalidSettingsDlg"
Width="260"
Height="85"
Title="!(loc.InvalidSettingsDlg_Title)">
<Control Id="OK" Type="PushButton" X="102" Y="57" Width="56"
Height="17" Default="yes" Cancel="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUIOK)">
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return">1</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Id="Text" Type="Text" X="48" Y="22" Width="194" Height="30"
Text="[ErrorMessage]" />
<Control Id="Icon" Type="Icon" X="15" Y="15" Width="24" Height="24"
ToolTip="!(loc.InvalidSettingsDlgIconTooltip)" FixedSize="yes"
IconSize="32" Text="WixUI_Ico_Exclam" />
</Dialog>
</UI>
</Fragment>

Using a WiX property from a browse dialog

I'm developing a setup project using WiX, and I have the following problem. I get a directory path from the user using the Browse dialog, and I need to put this path in web.config. The problem is that in web.config that puts the value in "WWWMain" and not the path chosen by the user.
This is my code:
Product.wxs
<Property Id="IISLOGDIRECTORY" Value="WWWMain" />
Dialog.wxs
<Control Id="IISLogDirectoryEdit" Type="PathEdit" X="45" Y="100" Width="220" Height="18" Disabled="yes" Property="IISLOGDIRECTORY" Indirect="yes" />
Installation.wxs
<util:XmlFile Id="ModifyIISLogDirectory"
Action="setValue"
Permanent="yes"
ElementPath="/configuration/appSettings/add[\[]#key='isslogdirectory'[\]]/#value"
File="[INSTALLLOCATION]Web\Web.config"
Value="[IISLOGDIRECTORY]"/>
Declare the variable in Dialog.wxs itself but after the control
Example
<Control Id="DiffBackUpEdit" Type="PathEdit" X="120" Y="157" Width="160" Height="18" Property="IISLOGDIRECTORY">
</Control>
<Control Id="Browse12" Type="PushButton" X="290" Y="157" Width="56" Height="17" Text="Browse">
<Publish Property="_BrowseProperty" Value="DIFFDBBACKUPLOC" Order="1">1</Publish>
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="BrowseDlg" Order="2">1</Publish>
</Control>
Then at bottom in same page after add
<Property Id="IISLOGDIRECTORY" Value="C:\Database\MDM"/>