{"id":1220,"date":"2017-12-04T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2021-02-27T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T09:34:42","slug":"use-of-merge-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/use-of-merge-module\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Merge Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>InstallerExpert created the topic: Use of Merge Module<\/strong><br \/>\nReposting this question :<br \/>\nIs it possible to use the same merge module twice in the same source file.<\/p>\n<p><Directory Id=\"TARGETDIR\" Name=\"SourceDir\"><br \/>\n  <Directory Id=\"ProgramFilesFolder\"><br \/>\n    <Directory Id=\"MergeModuleSample\" Name=\"Merge Module Sample\"><br \/>\n      <Directory Id=\"INSTALLDIR\" Name=\"Merge Mod32\"><br \/>\n            <Directory Id=\"F1\" Name=\"F1\"\/><br \/>\n            <Directory Id=\"F2\" Name=\"F2\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/Directory><br \/>\n      <\/Directory><br \/>\n<\/Directory><br \/>\n<\/Directory><\/p>\n<p><DirectoryRef Id=\"F1\"><br \/>\n      <Merge Id=\"merge1\" Language=\"1033\" DiskId=\"1\" SourceFile=\"abc.msm\"><br \/>\n      <\/Merge><br \/>\n<\/DirectoryRef><\/p>\n<p><DirectoryRef Id=\"F2\"><br \/>\n      <Merge Id=\"merge2\" Language=\"1033\" DiskId=\"1\" SourceFile=\"abc.msm\"><br \/>\n      <\/Merge><br \/>\n<\/DirectoryRef><\/p>\n<p><Feature Id=\"ProductFeature2\" Title=\"MergeMod322\" Level=\"1\"><br \/>\n      <MergeRef Id=\"merge1\"\/><br \/>\n<\/Feature><br \/>\n<Feature Id=\"ProductFeature1\" Title=\"MergeMod321\" Level=\"1\"><br \/>\n      <MergeRef Id=\"merge2\"\/><br \/>\n<\/Feature><br \/>\nThe above code is giving error:<br \/>\nError 1 The merge module &#8216;merge2&#8217; contains a file identifier, &#8216;m&#8217;, that is duplicated either in another merge module or in a File\/@Id attribute.  File identifiers must be unique.  Please change one of the file identifiers to a different value.<\/p>\n<p>Code in the merge module:<\/p>\n<p><Directory Id=\"TARGETDIR\" Name=\"SourceDir\"><br \/>\n            <Directory Id=\"Folder1\"><br \/>\n                <Component Id=\"Comp1\" Guid=\"\"><br \/>\n                    <File Id=\"m\" Name=\"file1.txt\" KeyPath=\"yes\" Vital=\"no\"\nChecksum=\"yes\" Source=\"F:\\file1.txt\" \/><br \/>\n                <\/Component><br \/>\n            <\/Directory><br \/>\n  <\/Directory><\/p>\n<p>Basically i want to copy the file (file1.txt) in F1 and F2 using the mereg module.How can it be done?<\/p>\n<p><strong>InstallerGeek replied the topic: Re: Use of Merge Module<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t merge a Merge Module twice. You can connect the Merge Module to multiple Features but that won&#8217;t get what you want. 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