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The "Summary" Command

This command is used to either modify summary information stream properties. These are mainly used to display properties when you select right click then properties within explorer however some fields are used by Windows Installer for other MSI only related purposes (compression options is an example).

This command takes these parameters:

• Summary Property Name (positional)
  The name of the property, it should be one of:
  • CodePage
    This sets the code page for the summary information only and is unrelated to the database's code page which can be modified with the "CodePage" command. See the "Internationalization" section for more details.
  • TITLE
  • SUBJECT
  • AUTHOR
  • KEYWORDS
  • COMMENTS
  • TEMPLATE
    See "64 Bit Installs".
  • LastAuthor
  • PACKAGECODE or RevNumber
    See the "PackageCode" GUID.
  • EditTime
  • LastPrinted
  • CREATE_DTM
  • LastSave_DTM
  • PageCount or MsiSchema
    See "64 Bit Installs".
  • SourceType or WordCount
    As "company.mmh" manipulates this value you may need to be careful if you need to adjust it, for more information see "COMPANY_PACKAGE_REQUIRES_ELEVATED_PRIVLEDGES".
  • CharCount
  • AppName
  • SECURITY
    Note that the documented values in "MSI.CHM" are 2,4 where as ORCA sets 1,2 (ORCA is wrong).

  In the above color was used to indicate the property types, these are integers, times and strings.

• [*]Value (required)
  The value of the summary property.

  You should use "*VALUE" if you have a VBSCRIPT expression which resolves to a string (use "cstr()" if you get a type mismatch). The "*value" parameter only makes a difference for string items!

  A string type is treated as a literal value unless "*value" used, all other types should be supplied as VB expressions (or you will probably get a syntax error in the generated code (such as "Expected end of statement").

  To remove a summary item assign the string "Empty" (remember to use "*VALUE" for string items).

Summary Dialog in ORCA

This shows the summary information dialog for an msi created using "TryMe.MM" in "ORCA":

EXAMPLE

;--- Set up some summary items ----------------------------------------------
<$Summary "AUTHOR"       VALUE="<?PpwizardAuthor>">
<$Summary "CODEPAGE"     VALUE=^1252^>                ;;Integer summary type
<$Summary "TEMPLATE"     Value="Intel;1033">
<$Summary "TITLE"        VALUE=^'ASDF"^>
<$Summary "COMMENTS"     VALUE="line 1<$CRLF>Line 2">
<$Summary "EDITTIME"     VALUE="date()">
<$Summary "LASTPRINTED"  VALUE="now()">
<$Summary "CREATE_DTM"   VALUE=^cdate("24 January 2006")^>
<$Summary "LASTSAVE_DTM" VALUE="#26 Feb 2006 11:23:04 am#">

;--- Remove summary item (make null) ----------------------------------------
<$Summary "LASTPRINTED"  VALUE=^Empty^>

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