Web Update questions AFTER reading docs

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sb5.0.1193

Quoting p. 38 Configure iDeploy WebInstall:

" WebUpdate Image

[in] Mark this checkbox if your WebUpdate is a dynamic web installer.
If marked, you don't need to enter the above information."

question: how to I know if my WebUpdate is a dynamic web installer?

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Quoting from the PDF:

"4. Select [PRODUCTGUID], right-click and select Details or click Details at
the bottom of the General Information page. We suggest to use the same
Product GUID here."

What does "the same Product GUID" mean? The same as WHAT? What am I
supposed to put there?
Do I have to make my own hand-copied table of these long numbers to keep
straight? What goes into the "New" field?

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Kent ,

> sb5.0.1193
>
> Quoting p. 38 Configure iDeploy WebInstall:
>
> " WebUpdate Image
>
> [in] Mark this checkbox if your WebUpdate is a dynamic web installer.
> If marked, you don't need to enter the above information."
>
> question: how to I know if my WebUpdate is a dynamic web installer?

Sorry, documentation is still under heavy development.

If you have marked the "Enable iDeploy WebInstall" checkbox, then it's a
"dynamic" web installer. A "dynamic" web installer generates a small .exe
and several .0000x cluster files - it downloads only the files needed for
the installation.

> *******************
> Quoting from the PDF:
>
> "4. Select [PRODUCTGUID], right-click and select Details or click Details
> at the bottom of the General Information page. We suggest to use the same
> Product GUID here."
>
> What does "the same Product GUID" mean? The same as WHAT? What am I
> supposed to put there?
> Do I have to make my own hand-copied table of these long numbers to keep
> straight? What goes into the "New" field?

Enter a GUID that uniquely identifies your product. In this case, enter
the Product GUID for your first (initial) product installation (in other
words, enter the same GUID you have used to install the WebUpdate Client).

Does this help?

Thanks,
Friedrich

Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5

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Your answer helps very much, thank you. Next question regards the
UNINSTALLER--the docs say I can customize it, but do not say HOW. I need to
delete files that my application creates, so that my demo can be removed
WITHOUT leaving clutter.
--
Kent V. Busse, J.D.
A:COMPUTER.WIZ
Outsourcing for results!

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Hi Kent,

Whilst SB5 has the ability to delete folders and trees and files etc I
found it more convenient for me to write a small app that
conditionally removes everything I need. What I do is get the
Uninstall script to call the exe with a paramater as it won't work
without the parameter (to prevent the user from accidently wiping
everything). The exe removes everything except the uninstall log and
the uninstall executable so that once the exe finishes removing what
it needs, SB5 removes the exe together with everything else SB5
installed including the shortcuts etc. It works really well. The only
thing I had to do was to add a little pause to the script to make sure
that the exe had plenty of time to do its thing before the script
continued.

I have attached the uninstall script and the relevant clw file from
the app.

Best Regards,
Geoff Spillane
Data Down Under

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No problem. SetupBuilder 5 Developer Edition provides a "scriptable"
uninstaller. You can use *all* script functions here (except the "Install
File(s)" function)

See "Uninstall Script Demo 1.sb5"

Does this help?

--
Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5