Enabling or Disabling Installer Prerequisite Checks

It is not recommended that you turn off installer prerequisite checks.

By default, the HotDocs Advance installer checks that each item in a list of prerequisites exists in the deployment environment before installing Advance. You can explicitly turn off or on individual prerequisite checks in the Advance installer configuration file.

For example, turning off the EnsureDatabaseActivity check prevents the installer from checking that SQL Server is installed.  You may want to do this if you intend to install prerequisites after deploying Advance.

To toggle prerequisites checks

  1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the unzipped HotDocs Advance installer folder.
  2. In the unzipped folder, navigate to the bin.
  3. Open the json file in a text editor.
  4. In the SiteSettings section of the settings file, add any of the options in the table below.
  5. Save your changes.

When you run the Advance installer, it will run or ignore the prerequisite checks as specified.

Name Description Example
EnsureDotNetFramework Enable or disable the prerequisite check for the Microsoft .Net framework. "EnsureDotNetFrameworkActivity": "false",
EnsureDotNetCoreActivity Enable or disable the prerequisite check for Microsoft .Net Core framework. "EnsureDotNetCoreActivity": "false",
EnsureAdministratorActivity Enable or disable the prerequisite check that the installer is being run with Windows administrator permissions. "EnsureAdministratorActivity": "false",
EnsureDatabaseActivity Enable or disable the prerequisite check that Microsoft SQL Server is installed. "EnsureDatabaseActivity": "false",

Example

For example, when disabling the EnsureAdministratorActivity and EnsureDotNetCoreActivity checks, the SiteSettings section of your settings files will appear as follows:

"SiteSettings": {

      … "EnsureAdministratorActivity": "true",

       "EnsureDotNetCoreActivity": "false",

}