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Hi,

I work for a company that does support for schools, we just got handed an installer made with creatinstall free to be rolled out.

I can't find any documentation on your site about commandline switches!

How do I do a silent install? /quiet /silent /s /q don't seem to work
What switch controls where the logfile is put?

Your website boasts as the 2 main principles for the installer "Complete control over the installation process and unlimited scalability". The latter doesn't fly without a silent install mode.

Am I overlooking some documentation somewhere or is this currently impossible?

You can specify and use any command-line switches for different purposes.
About silent mode. Go to Project tab - Settings page.
There is the 'Silent command-line parameter' field. By default, it is specified as -silent. You can redefined it as /silent (for example) and run your setup as
setup.exe /silent
for silent mode.

Dear Sir / Madam,

We want to create an installation package that can run on the windows command line. Please let me know that I can pass any other parameter on the 'Silent command-line parameter' or not. For example:

setup.exe /silent language=English version=64bit ...

Thank you very much

IlovePaidDay

There is a special command 'Command-line parameters' which allows you to get command-line parameters and assign them to variables.
http://www.createinstall.com/help/command-line-parameters.html

After that, you can use these variables as you want.

Hi,

Please let me know where will be the good place to add 'Command-line parameters'? at the beginning of the installation tab? I already tried to add it on the middle of the installation process, but it did not work. What is the variable name for the installation language? 'language' or 'langinst'. For example, on the command line I should put:

setup.exe -silent language=English
or
setup.exe -silent langinst=English

Thank you very much

You have to insert it at the begining of Install Script.
If you want to use setup.exe -silent language=English
then
Command-line parameter: language=
Type: Suffix
Variable Name: langinst
Default Value: #langinst#

Dear Sir / Madam,
We want to build an installation package that allows an user can install a custom software in either from silent command line or from dialogs popup to enter selection of version and language. For example, from the dialogs popup installation, the version is set as following in the "Set Variables":
Variable name: Version1
Value: 1
If Condition:
Substitute Variable: No

Variable name: Version2
Value: 0
If Condition:
Substitute Variable: No

On the "Command-Line Parameters" for the silent installation, the version variable is set as following:
Command-line parameter: myVer1
Type: Flag
Variable name: Version1
Default value: 0

Command-line parameter: myVer2
Type: Flag
Variable name: Version2
Default value: 0

Currently, the dialogs popup installation is working good. However, the silent command line installation is not worked as expected. When a user runs the command line as following:

setup.exe -silent myVer2

The installation package will run without any popup dialog. However, the installation will use the default setting in the "Set Variables". It ignored the parameter set on the command line. Please let me know:

1. How to override the variables which set in the "Set Variables", if a user wants to run setup on the silent command line?
2. Can I use the parameter "silent" on the silent command line as a variable to set on the "If Condition" in the "Set Variables" as following:

Variable name: Version1
Value: 1
If Condition: !silent
Substitute Variable: No

Thanks

1. In your case, Set Variable command must be above Command-Line Parameters command. The variables must be overwritten. You can send your .ci project file to info@createinstall.com.

2. You can do that if Project tab - Settings - Silent Command-Line parameter equals -silent.