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I have a Wix Installer, Product.msi, which launches a setup.exe via Custom Action. When I execute my Installer through Command Prompt, for example:
msiexec /i Product.msi /q or msiexec /r Product.msi /q or msiexec /x Product.msi

I would like to pass /i /r /q /x options to setup.exe

Is it possible to achieve this through Wix Toolset?

Costanzo Ferraro
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The flags you mention all set properties for the MSI, which you can then reference in your custom action, converting to whatever format you need for your setup.exe.

For instance:

/i corresponds to the value of Installed being false (if the product isn't already installed).

/r corresponds to a value of "Repair" on the WixUIInstallMode property.

/x corresponds to a value of "Remove" on the WixUIInstallMode property.

/q (and its modifiers like /qn and /qb) correspond to the UILEVEL property, which has the following values found from this link.

UILevel:

INSTALLUILEVEL_NONE 2 Completely silent installation.
INSTALLUILEVEL_BASIC 3 Simple progress and error handling.
INSTALLUILEVEL_REDUCED 4 Authored UI, wizard dialogs suppressed.
INSTALLUILEVEL_FULL 5 Authored UI with wizards, progress, errors.

You can see this answer if you're unfamiliar with passing values and referencing them in a custom action.

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Kurt Lewis
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  • Thanks, @Kurt! Anyway, WixUIInstallMode property doesn't work at all, as explained in [this post](http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/InstallMode-Conditions-DON-T-work-td707286.html) . Are there other solutions? – Costanzo Ferraro Apr 10 '17 at 08:52