If in the action script?

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(imported topic written by johnism91)

I know I can does this with a vb script but I am wondering if I can do it in the action and not have to download a VBs script and run it …

So I we have a leagcy app that requires some machine to have C:\Winnt instead of C:\Windows so that means %WINDIR% \MSIEXE.EXE I does not work .

I can get it work with C:\winnt\system32\msiexec.exe /i but I have machines that have both system directories C:\winnt and C:\Windows

is there anything that can be done or so somthing like this ?

wait if C:\winnt\system32\msiexec.exe = true then C:\winnt\system32\msiexec.exe /i “__Download\BLA.msi” REINSTALLMODE=VOMUS REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress /q

else C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe /i “__Download\BLA.msi” REINSTALLMODE=VOMUS REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress /q

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(imported comment written by MattBoyd)

To answer your question about if statements, yes. You could do something like this:

if {exists file “C:\winnt\system32\msiexec.exe”}
wait C:\winnt\system32\msiexec.exe /i “__Download\BLA.msi” REINSTALLMODE=VOMUS REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress /q
else
wait C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe /i “__Download\BLA.msi” REINSTALLMODE=VOMUS REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress /q
endif

However, it’s probably just as easy to do this in your situation:

wait {pathname of system folder}\msiexec.exe /i “__Download\BLA.msi” REINSTALLMODE=VOMUS REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress /q

The relevance that’s between the curly braces above should return “C:\windows\system32” on WinXP and newer systems and “C:\winnt” on older systems.

Here’s a quickstart guide to action script: http://support.bigfix.com/bes/misc/customactions.html

And here’s a more thorough reference:http://support.bigfix.com/fixlet/documents/WinActions_20081110.pdf