New-Installer custom action usage

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First off, thanks for making such an amazing software suite, and all but giving it away. I’m trying to build an installer, that runs a script after it unpacks everything during the install routine. Technically I would also want to do the same thing during an uninstall and repair if possible.

Here is is what I have so far… which seems to do everything, sans run the powershell script during install. Any direction that can be given will be greatly appreciated!!

New-Installer -Product "My First Product" -UpgradeCode '1a73a1be-50e6-4e92-af03-586f4a9d9e84' -Content {

    

    New-InstallerDirectory -PredefinedDirectory "ProgramFilesFolder"  -Content {

       New-InstallerDirectory -DirectoryName "My First Product" -Content {

            New-InstallerFile -Id "testcmd" -Source "C:\installer\install_customcommand.ps1"

            Get-ChildItem ("C:\service_loop\*") -Recurse | New-InstallerFile -Verbose

       }

    }

    New-InstallerCustomAction -FileId "testcmd" -RunOnInstall

 } -Output (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "output") -RequiresElevation -Verbose
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Glad you’re enjoying it! I’ll have to take a look. From what I can tell, that looks fine so not quite sure why it isn’t executing the script.

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Thanks so much! I’m not sure if this helps… but for now this is what the install script looks like.

Write-Output "I ran correctly" | Out-File -FilePath c:\sasc\installertest.log -Force

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Ah! I see the issue. There is a CustomAction parameter on New-Installer. Try this.

New-Installer -Product "My First Product" -UpgradeCode '1a73a1be-50e6-4e92-af03-586f4a9d9e84' -Content {

    

    New-InstallerDirectory -PredefinedDirectory "ProgramFilesFolder"  -Content {

       New-InstallerDirectory -DirectoryName "My First Product" -Content {

            New-InstallerFile -Id "testcmd" -Source "C:\installer\install_customcommand.ps1"

            Get-ChildItem ("C:\service_loop\*") -Recurse | New-InstallerFile -Verbose

       }

    }

    

 } -Output (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "output") -RequiresElevation -Verbose -CustomAction @(New-InstallerCustomAction -FileId "testcmd" -RunOnInstall)
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OH that makes sense! I’ll give a go tonight.

Thanks so much!

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Worked perfectly! Thanks so much again for your help!

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