Only repair and uninstall can be seen while relaunching bootstrapper application

Question

I have an msi bundled with prerequisites using Wix bootstrapper. After installing the wix bootstrapper application, if i relaunch it again i could do only repair and uninstall. But i need to have modify option also.

In MSI i tried setting the property REINSTALLMODE as "vamus". after doing so, i was able to change / repair/ uninstall w.r.t. msi. But bootstrapper application doesn't show modify option.

On relaunching the installed wix bootstrapper application, i am expecting to have below options.

change, repair & uninstall.

Answer 1

A modify option makes only sense if you want to remove or add features included in an msi. May be a solution would be to set up your own bookkeeping on installed features and showing this list to the user in a custom bootstrapper application. Another way to handle this situation may be to show the msi installation dialog which should show a "modify" dialog option.