For installation target locations, see Deployment Structure: Installation

Make sure to provide an .ini file for the application that points to the alternative paths:

  [HSE]
  configdir=C:\\ProgramData\\<MyCompany>\\<MyApp>\\<MyApp>_Config
  datadir=C:\\ProgramData\\<MyCompany>\\<MyApp>\\<MyApp>_Data

Replace <MyCompany> and <MyApp> with your actual company and application name.

The NIPKG build spec of the template application project uses the following settings in order to build an NI Package and Package Installer:

The NI Package will be installed with admin (ie elevated) user rights. When the NI Package Manager creates the _Config and _Data folders in C:\ProgramData during installation, those folders are set to be not modifiable by regular users. We need to fix that so the application can then access those folders when run as a regular user.

See Windows: ProgramData Access Rights for details on how to set DACL via a batch file.

The batch file lives in the repo in /Tools/DACL/DACL.bat, gets installed into the application's install directory and is called as a custom action as a post-install step with the argument “C:\ProgramData\HSE\TEMPLATE” (see above).