Installshield and R8.5

Hi’

Anybody out there with great knowledge of Installshield?

I work with client installation in an environment with Outlook as default mail-client. So, I have created a transform-file with various changes in this respect, i.e entering USENOTESFORMAIL=0 through the table-editor and even setting the registry key to “Microsoft Outlook”

I have experienced that when i test my new package running “msiexec /i …” the installation leaves the default mail setting unchanged but as soon as I test as silent install (using /qn as parameter) the default mail setting is changed to Lotus Notes.

Let me add, that I have no particular knowledge about InstallShield, but pick up a little here and there, i.e. in this forum, in the information center and on the net.

Any good explanations?

Thanks in advance

Per Carlsen

Subject: Check out the LotusInstall.log file in the installing user’s My Documents folder.

In that file you should see an entry for RegisterEmailProgram. Here is a sample:

2010-01-13T10:44:12.12-05:00 UpgradeUtils/RegisterEmailProgram: Entered

2010-01-13T10:44:12.12-05:00 GetProperty Success: UpgradeUtils/RegisterEmailProgram (Line 4668) got 'C:\notes' for ‘PROGDIR’ from registry

2010-01-13T10:44:12.12-05:00 GetProperty Success: UpgradeUtils/RegisterEmailProgram (Line 4672) got ‘1’ for ‘USENOTESFOREMAIL’ from registry

2010-01-13T10:44:12.12-05:00 GetProperty Success: UpgradeUtils/RegisterEmailProgram (Line 4678) got ‘No’ for ‘Uninstalling’ from registry

2010-01-13T10:44:12.12-05:00 UpgradeUtils/RegisterEmailProgram: Successfully set registry key: SOFTWARE\clients\mail

2010-01-13T10:44:12.12-05:00 UpgradeUtils/RegisterEmailProgram: Successfully set registry key: mailto\shell\open\command

2010-01-13T10:44:12.12-05:00 UpgradeUtils/RegisterEmailProgram: Successfully set registry key: mailto\DefaultIcon

2010-01-13T10:44:12.12-05:00 UpgradeUtils/RegisterEmailProgram: Exiting

Paste your snippet here please.

Subject: Installshield query

Hi

I had the same issue and found this link referring to a setting in the Notes 6 client in http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/uafiles.nsf/docs/RN654/$File/readme654.pdf

Basically the steps in installshield are :-

Additional Tools → Direct Editor → Property

Right click rows with entries below and “Drop row”

USENOTESFOREMAIL

I also applied them to the below too …

USENOTESFORCALENDAR

USENOTESFORCONTACTS

This worked for me.