Property Reference Tables
PRASANNA KUMAR RAJA
April 11th, 2008
Quickly find out about property references by referring to the following tables. Everything you ever wanted to know may just be listed here - conveniently listed.
Component Location Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| SourceDir | Root directory containing the source files. |
| TARGETDIR | Location into which the installation package is copied during an administrative installation. |
Configuration Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| ACTION | Initial action called after the installer is initialized. |
| ALLUSERS | Determines where configuration information will be stored. |
| ARPAUTHORIZEDCDFPREFIX | URL of the update channel for the application. |
| ARPCOMMENTS | Provides Comments for the Add/Remove Control Panel. |
| ARPCONTACT | Provides Contact for the Add/Remove Control Panel. |
| ARPINSTALLLOCATION | Fully qualified path to the application's primary folder. |
| ARPNOREPAIR | Disables the Repair button in the Programs Wizard. |
| ARPPRODUCTICON | Specifies the primary icon for the installation package. |
| ARPREADME | Provides ReadMe for the Add/Remove Control Panel. |
| ARPSIZE | Estimated size of the application in kilobytes. |
| ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT | Prevents display of application in Add/Remove programs list. |
| ARPURLINFOABOUT | URL for application's home page. |
| ARPURLUPDATEINFO | URL for application update information. |
| ARPNOMODIFY | Disables functionality that would modify the product. |
| ARPNOREMOVE | Disables functionality that would remove the product. |
| AVAILABLEFREEREG | Registry space in KB required by the application. Used by AllocateRegistrySpace action. |
| CCP_DRIVE | The root path for any of the qualifying products for CCP. |
| DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS | Set to disable the generation certain shortcuts supporting installation-on-demand. |
| DISABLEMEDIA | Prevents the installer from registering media sources, such as a CD-ROMs, as valid sources for the product. |
| DISABLEROLLBACK | Disables rollback for the current configuration. |
| EXECUTEACTION | Top-level action initiated by the ExecuteAction action. |
| EXECUTEMODE | Mode of execution performed by the installer. |
| INSTALLLEVEL | Initial "level" at which features will be installed. |
| LOGACTION | List of action names that will be logged. |
| Privileged | Runs an installation with elevated privileges. |
| PROMPTROLLBACKCOST | Action if there is insufficient disk space for the installation. |
| PRIMARYFOLDER | Allows the author to designate a ""primary"" folder for the installation. Used to determine the values for the PrimaryVolumePath, PrimaryVolumeSpaceAvailable, PrimaryVolumeSpaceRequired, and PrimaryVolumeSpaceRemaining properties. |
| REBOOT | Force or suppress rebooting. |
| REBOOTPROMPT | Suppresses the display of prompts for reboots to the user. Any reboots that are needed happen automatically. |
| ROOTDRIVE | Default drive for the install. |
| SEQUENCE | A table having the sequence table schema. |
| SHORTFILENAMES | Causes short file names to be used. |
| TRANSFORMS | List of transforms to be applied to the database. |
| TRANSFORMSATSOURCE | Informs the installer that the transforms for the product reside at the source. |
| TRANSFORMSSECURE | Setting the TRANSFORMSECURE property to 1 informs the installer that transforms are to be cached locally on the user's computer in a location where the user does not have write access. |
| LIMITUI | UI level capped as Basic. |
| DefaultUIFont | Default font style used for controls. |
Date, Time Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| Date | The current date. |
| Time | The current time. |
Feature Installation Options Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| ADDLOCAL | List of features to be installed locally. |
| ADVERTISE | List of features to be advertised. |
| ADDDEFAULT | List of features to be installed in their default configuration. |
| ADDSOURCE | List of features to be run from source. |
| REMOVE | List of features to be removed. |
| REINSTALL | List of features to be reinstalled. |
| REINSTALLMODE | A string containing letters that specify the type of reinstall to perform. |
| COMPADDLOCAL | List of component IDs to be installed locally. |
| COMPADDSOURCE | List of component IDs to run from source media. |
| FILEADDDEFAULT | List of file keys of files that are to be installed in their default configuration. |
| FILEADDLOCAL | List of file keys of the files to be run locally. |
| FILEADDSOURCE | List of file keys to be run from the source media. |
| PATCH | Setting this property applies a patch. |
Hardware Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| Alpha | Numeric processor level if running on an Alpha processor. |
| BorderSide | The width, in pixels, of the window borders. |
| BorderTop | The height, in pixels, of the window borders. |
| CaptionHeight | Height, in pixels, of normal caption area. |
| ColorBits | Number of adjacent color bits for each pixel. |
| Intel | Numeric processor level if running on an Intel processor. |
| PhysicalMemory | Size of the installed RAM in megabytes. |
| ScreenX | Width, in pixels, of the screen. |
| ScreenY | Height, in pixels, of the screen. |
| TextHeight | The height of characters in logical units. |
| VirtualMemory | Amount of available page file space in megabytes. |
Installation Status Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| AFTERREBOOT | Indicates current installation follows a reboot invoked by the ForceReboot action. |
| CostingComplete | Indicates whether disk space costing has completed. |
| RollbackDisabled | The installer sets this property whenever rollback is disabled. |
| Installed | Indicates that a product is already installed. |
| ProductLanguage | Numeric language identifier (LANGID) for the database. (REQUIRED) |
| OutOfDiskSpace | Insufficient disk space to accommodate the installation. |
| OutOfNoRbDiskSpace | Insufficient disk space with rollback turned off. |
| Preselected | Features are already selected. |
| PrimaryVolumePath | The Installer sets the value of this property to the path of the volume designated by the PRIMARYFOLDER property. |
| PrimaryVolumeSpaceAvailable | The Installer sets the value of this property to a string representing the total number of bytes available on the volume referenced by the PrimaryVolumePath property. |
| PrimaryVolumeSpaceRequired | The Installer sets the value of this property to a string representing the total number of bytes required by all currently selected features on the volume referenced by the PrimaryVolumePath property. |
| PrimaryVolumeSpaceRemaining | The Installer sets the value of this property to a string representing the total number of bytes remaining on the volume referenced by the PrimaryVolumePath property if all the currently selected features were installed. |
| RESUME | Resumed installation. |
| UpdateStarted | Set when changes to the system have begun for this install. |
| ReplacedInUseFiles | Set if the installer installs over a file that is being held in use. |
| NOUSERNAME | Suppresses the automatic setting of the USERNAME property. |
| NOCOMPANYNAME | Suppresses the automatic setting of the USERNAME property. |
| UILevel | Indicates the user interface level. |
Operating System Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| AdminUser | Set on Microsoft® Windows NT®/Windows® 2000 if the user has administrator privileges. |
| ComputerName | Computer name of the current system. |
| LogonUser | User name for the user currently logged on. |
| OLEAdvtSupport | Set if OLE supports the Microsoft Windows Installer. |
| RemoteAdminTS | The installer sets the RemoteAdminTS property when the system is a remote administration server using Terminal Services. |
| ServicePackLevel | The version number of the operating system service pack. |
| ServicePackLevelMinor | The minor version number of the operating system service pack. |
| SharedWindows | Set when the system is operating as Shared Windows. |
| ShellAdvtSupport | Set if the shell supports feature advertising. |
| SystemLanguageID | Default language identifier for the system. |
| TerminalServer | Set when the system is a server with Windows Terminal Server. |
| TTCSupport | Indicates if the operating system supports using .TTC (true type font collections) files. |
| Version9X | Version number for the Windows operating system. |
| VersionDatabase | Numeric database version of the current installation. |
| VersionNT | Version number for the Windows NT/Windows 2000 operating system. |
| WindowsBuild | Build number of the operating system. |
Product Information Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| ARPHELPLINK | Internet address, or URL, for technical support. |
| ARPHELPTELEPHONE | Technical support phone numbers. |
| ProductCode | A unique identifier for the particular product release. (REQUIRED) |
| ProductName | Human-readable name of the application.(REQUIRED) |
| ProductState | Set to the installed state of a product. |
| ProductVersion | String format of the product version as a numeric value. (REQUIRED) |
| Manufacturer | Name of the application's manufacturer.(REQUIRED) |
| PIDTemplate | String used as a template for the PIDKEY property. |
| DiskPrompt | String displayed by a message box prompting for a disk. |
| LeftUnit | Places units to the left of the number. |
| UpgradeCode | A GUID representing a related set of products. |
| IsAdminPackage | Set to 1 if the current installation is running from a package created through an administrative installation. |
System Folder Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| AdminToolsFolder | Full path to directory containing administrative tools for an individual user. |
| AppDataFolder | Full path to the Application Data folder for the current user. |
| CommonAppDataFolder | Full path to Application data for all users. |
| CommonFilesFolder | Full path to the Common Files folder for the current user. |
| DesktopFolder | Full path to the Desktop folder. |
| FavoritesFolder | Full path to the Favorites folder for the current user. |
| FontsFolder | Full path to the Fonts folder. |
| LocalAppDataFolder | Full path to directory that serves as a data repository for local (non-roaming) applications. |
| MyPicturesFolder | Full path to the MyPicturesFolder. |
| PersonalFolder | Full path to the Personal folder for the current user. |
| ProgramFilesFolder | Full path to the Program Files folder. |
| ProgramMenuFolder | Full path to the Program Menu folder. |
| SendToFolder | Full path to the SendTo folder for the current user. |
| StartMenuFolder | Full path to the Start menu folder. |
| StartupFolder | Full path to the Startup folder. |
| System16Folder | Full path to folder for 16-bit system DLLs. |
| SystemFolder | Full path to the System folder. |
| TempFolder | Full path to the Temp folder. |
| TemplateFolder | Full path to the Template folder for the current user. |
| WindowsFolder | Full path to the Windows folder. |
| WindowsVolume | The volume of the Windows folder. |
Summary Information Update Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| PATCHNEWPACKAGECODE | The value of this property is written to the Revision Number Summary Property. |
| PATCHNEWSUMMARYSUBJECT | The value of this property is written to the Subject Summary Property. |
| PATCHNEWSUMMARYCOMMENTS | The value of this property is written to the Comments Summary Property. |
User Information Properties
| Property name | Brief description of property |
| AdminProperties | List of properties set during an administration installation. |
| COMPANYNAME | Organization of user performing the installation. |
| ProductID | Full Product ID after a successful validation. |
| PIDKEY | Part of the Product ID entered by user. |
| UserLanguageID | Default language identifier of the current user. |
| USERNAME | User performing the installation. |