[SOLVED] How do I make features in an MSI Feature Table automatically selected when their parents are selected

How do I make features in an MSI Feature Table automatically selected when their parents are selected

In my specific example I am looking at the nightly builds of FarManager 3. However, the same applies to FarManager 2.0.

By default when you install FarManager the Addons feature is not selected. You can select the features from a non-interactive command line install with the following command:

msiexec /i "farSetup.msi" /passive ADDLOCAL=Addons,Colors,Macros,SetUp,Shell,XLat'

I think it should be possible to do it with just ADDLOCAL=Addons because of the Feature Table. If you open the Feature Table in Orca, you see the following child features of Addons.

Addons from the msi Feature Table

Is there any way to modify the feature table so that ADDLOCAL=Addons implies the clild features of Colors, Macros, SetUp, Shell, and XLat?

Solution

Have you tried specifying Attributes that include msidbFeatureAttributesFollowParent (value 2) and msidbFeatureAttributesUIDisallowAbsent (value 16), taking you to 26? Per the Feature table documentation, this should tie the feature states together. Of course if you want to allow the child features to remain unselected, this is not viable.