crollins3211.5524908125110293E12 asked a question.
Changing shortcut display name at run time
I want to change the shortcut display name at run time based on a property supplied by IsCmdBld.
The display name has to be a string, but as far as I can tell, strings can't be changed at install time -- I've tried "Program Name [SHORTCUT_NAME]" and it creates a shortcut with that literal name instead of replacing [SHORTCUT_NAME] with the appropriate property.
Is there a way to change the shortcut display name (or any other values in the string table) at run time?
The "Display Name" in InstallShield maps to the "Name" field in MSI Shortcuts
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa371847(v=vs.85).aspx
It is a Filename data type and thus you cannot embed a Property to resolve to a value at runtime.
You would need a Formatted data type in order to do that. Such as Arguments. You can use a Property in a Formatted data type but not in a Filename data type.
The Formatted data type is a text string that is processed to resolve embedded property names, table keys, environment variable references, and other special substrings. The following conventions are recognized to resolve the string:
Chad