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When trying to install Amazing Charts on Windows 10 getting installer interruption; basically installer quits on it's own I do see a message about changing roles and then it quits.

What version of AC? Also, can you upload a screenshot of the error message?

AC update 9.3.1, Build 194 (the most recent from the client site). Won't install. Fails after "installing Window features/roles"

John,

Did you run the installer "As Administrator" ?

Neither the downloaded AC zip file or the AC install program has that option available when I left click to open it.

OK, I will likely sound stupid trying to comment on that. But, that file is still compressed. When you extract it, do you get the blue install icon? Indy makes a good point, but usually when you don't install or run the tuner or do everything AC wants you to do, you have to run as admin or it basically goes nowhere.

This error message is bizarre. It shows it is completed but not complete. Another dumb question from me. It says "finish" in the bottom right. I know you have but what happens when you do?

Have you downloaded another one? I will try to send some help your way.

John, are you having the same problem the OP is having?

That's because installer is not able to enable Net Framework 3.5. You'll need to go to the Programs and Features>Net FX 3.5 and install it. Then the install should go normally.
Net FX 3.5 is not enabled by default in Windows 8/10. The AC Installer also hasn't been updated for the new call method to install Net Framework.

Can he just download 3.5 and install it? What if he isn't using a server? This is why I encourage users with questions like these to start their question with:

Using Windows Server 2016 Standard with Windows Essentials hosting AC in a VM. Installing on a new machine with activation code, etc.

Oh, didn't see that one. Could have sworn someone wrote server manager.

I did but then I read Windows 10. Was in the middle of screenshotting server manager but then I saw Windows 10. It was up for like 30 seconds ha.

LOL, we are lock step sometimes.

Do you really have 1.6 TBs of programs? Or just one big program, lol.

It's multiple large programs. I actually had to move my programs drive from a 1TB to a 2TB last year.

.Net Framework was enabled, but I clicked it off & on anyway. Installer still fails.

I upgraded to 9.3.1 yesterday, probably the smoothest upgrade ever. I did get a prompt to download Net Framework and after I did so got the weird Finished/Interrupted screen above. I ran the installer again and it worked fine.

Maybe that's the answer. Nice job Rando! I do have to say though if that is the smoothest install you have had, that speaks volumes.

Thanks.

We start the 9.4 installs this week, we'll see how it goes.

Good luck Indy.

Problem solved by AC tech support. He had to manually install "Crystal Reports" before install would proceed.

Sigh. Crystal Reports.

I'd love to know why they haven't switched over to SSRS yet. I mean, I understand why John went with Crystal way back when, but still.

JamesNT

John,

I am glad it got fixed. This is how support is supposed to work!

Its now July and I am running into the same installshield interruption on a new HP Pavilion Laptop . Going to install dotnet 3.5 framework. Is it possible to get a link to the crystal reports installer? Especially if these are the possible solutions? Any advice would be helpful... Currently AC technical support OFFLINE.

Todd Scott
Internal Medicine

Hours later....Support came online...
Crystal reports separate install fixed. Installer finally finished....

Shouldn't have to be this way...

Todd,

I tried to find the installer for Crystal Reports on my new client computer, but AC Tech must have nuked it after he did the install on mine.

Maybe it was nuked to your recycle bin. That happened to me last time.

Looks really complicated to get Crystal Reports installed.
However, I installed v6.3.3 on an new Win10 machine, then rebooted, then installed v9.4.3 over the top of it.
It automatically removed the 6.3.3, leaving Crystal Reports intact, and installation proceeded smoothly.
I got one more Installer Interrupted error at the very end -- but all that was was it was looking for the main server. Pointed to the AC.xml and all is well.

This is an issue with the Windows 10 Creators update (1703) and InstallShield, a third party application we use to compile the installer.

I created the setup to associate checking / Installing .NET Framework with the packages that actually require it. The first is Crystal Reports, as reported above, the second is SQL Server 2012, that only installs on your main computer.

The only work around for this currently is to run the installer for Crystal Reports so that InstallShield thinks that it doesn't have to check for the prerequisite of that package.

InstallShield has acknowledged that this is a problem and it is fixed in a newer version of InstallShield used to create the installer that we deliver to you. InstallShield reported that the process is sitting waiting for a response from the OS but it never comes, and hence the hung install.

It should be fairly easy to work around this for now, at least for the client machines. The main machine will require someone from Client Services / Tech support to assist you to install SQL Server 2012 and configure the AMAZINGCHARTS instance correctly.

For clients:

• Navigate to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Downloaded Installations\{1F23896A-A487-C52D-A108-F3691BBE59C7} (AppData is a hidden folder, type the path into your Windows Explorer address bar or enable hidden items in folder options)
• Run the install for CRRuntime_32bit_13_0_1
• After setup for Crystal Reports completes run the setup again.

We have upgraded our install compile to use InstallShield 2016 and when 10.0.1 releases this problem will be resolved.

There is still a problem with Windows Server 2016 that I reported to InstallShield where it doesn't enable .NET Framework 3.5 and the install hangs as well. However, in this case if the user manually enables the feature using the server feature / roles wizard, the setup continues correctly. Note, that Amazing Charts doesn't officially support Windows Server 2016 yet, but I still test that the installer can complete successfully on this Windows platform.

Amazing Charts did test the install thoroughly before release but the creators update for Windows 10 was not available during testing.

NOTE: If Crystal Reports and SQL Server are already installed, then this shouldn't be an issue. The .NET Framework 3.5 check only occurs if these two packages need to be installed. So upgrades for current mains and clients should run successfully. This is why Tom's solution to install 6.3.3 works. Version 6.3.3 was created using Wise Installer, and the process to check for .NET Framework was much different. It was created prior to Windows 7 and enabling features using the OS DISM installer rather than just running a .exe from Microsoft.

Rando,

The install itself has some custom actions that require .NET Framework 4.5.2 installed on the computer. On most operating systems that I have seen, if you have Windows updates all installed, it will install everything up to .NET Framework 4.6.2.

Just did another new AC install on a computer that crashed a hard drive.

Reinstalled Win 10 to a new hard drive -- Windows apparently had the machine fingerprint in memory somewhere, because it automatically "activated" and I didn't have to buy a new license.

I remembered the problem with Crystal Reports installing from the 9.4 installer, so I first installed 6.3.3 which took care of Crystal Reports and some other stuff. Then installed 9.4 over the 6.3 -- the installer removed the 6.3, then just smoothly finished. No problem.

You have to change so many pieces of hardware for Windows to not recognize the same machine. And, if it didn't you could likely call Windows to get another key.

Believe it keys on the motherboard ID as 'the machine' identifier; the license transfer depends on if you bought a full retail version of windows versus 'system builder' version

Well, my point was not about Windows activation -- though I was amazed by how easy it turned out to be (the original, underlying installation was a Win7Pro OEM system builder version.)

My point was that AC9.* won't install directly on a new client machine (not talking about the problem of reinstalling on a new server!) because it doesn't have Crystal Reports and some other stuff.
I got around that problem twice on new client computers by first installing AC6.3.3 -- which I had in archive -- then installing 9.* over that.

I wonder if that has worked for anyone else, and whether AC has upgraded the v9 installer by this time.

Tom,

I tried to post why our installer has problems with Windows 10 above. Unfortunately I must not have been very clear about the nature of the problem.

We are aware of the issue but we are not re-compiling this for version 9.x. Version 10 is now compiled using InstallShield 2016. When version 10 is released, then the issue will be fixed.

You can also download crystal reports directly from SAP. Below is the link we use in the installer to download the file.
http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/crnetruntime/clickonce/CRRuntime_32bit_13_0_1.msi

Sincerely,
Daniel Lee
Release Engineer, Amazing Charts

OK, thanks.
I solved my problem.
I'm reasonably happy with 9.*
I hope that 10.* is even better.