Application Builder Question: how to install several applications in the same computer?

[aespin]

Hello,

I have two LabView applications and its installers, all of them generated with the aplication builder. Both works fine: I can install them in several computers without LabView. But when I try to install both in the same computer, the result is that I only have the last application I've just installed. I want to get the two applications installed at the same time in the computer. Is it possible? Anyone can help me?. I'm using LabView 2009 SP1

Thanks in advance

[CoastalMaineBird]

Double-check your BUILD Specs for both target apps.

Make sure the TARGET FILE NAME is different.

[aespin]

Hi Steve.

Thanks for your repply, but the Target File Name are different. Furthermore, I am trying to install them in different folders, both inside Program Files; with different names,...

[CoastalMaineBird]

If I understand you correctly:

from scratch, you install A, and you get A.exe, where you expect it.

from scratch, you install B, and you get B.exe, where you expect it.

If you then install A (when B has already been installed), then B.exe goes away?

Is that what's happening?

[aespin]

Exactly that. I'm triyng with several options in the Application and Installer builder, but it seems it does not work

[Mark_Yedinak]

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@aespin wrote:

Exactly that. I'm triyng with several options in the Application and Installer builder, but it seems it does not work

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It works quite well. We have installed over a dozen different applications on the same computer. I suspect you have something configured incorrectly in your installers and possibily the builder itself. We would need to see those to see what is not correct. One possibity is that your builds are generating the same GUID for the applications. Therefore even though the names are different the installer thinks they are the same thing.

[CoastalMaineBird]

There's nothing in principle that prevents you from installing 2 or more apps, it's very possible.

Try installing them someplace OTHER than "Program Files".  Perhaps Windows is being "helpful" or "protective".

[aespin]

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Mark_Yedinak escribió:

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@aespin wrote:

Exactly that. I'm triyng with several options in the Application and Installer builder, but it seems it does not work

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It works quite well. We have installed over a dozen different applications on the same computer. I suspect you have something configured incorrectly in your installers and possibily the builder itself. We would need to see those to see what is not correct. One possibity is that your builds are generating the same GUID for the applications. Therefore even though the names are different the installer thinks they are the same thing.

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Thanks. Is it possible to know the GUD asigned to the app? I've created the second app form the first one; and only modify the VI's source code and the names and destionations in the builder.

[aespin]

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CoastalMaineBird escribió:

There's nothing in principle that prevents you from installing 2 or more apps, it's very possible.

Try installing them someplace OTHER than "Program Files".  Perhaps Windows is being "helpful" or "protective".

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I'll try and tell you here

[aespin]

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aespin escribió:

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CoastalMaineBird escribió:

There's nothing in principle that prevents you from installing 2 or more apps, it's very possible.

Try installing them someplace OTHER than "Program Files".  Perhaps Windows is being "helpful" or "protective".

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I'll try and tell you here

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I've just try. It doesn't work