Digital Workshop

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way of making my DVD Rom disk time out after lets say 12 months.

Thanks
Mark

Hi Mark

Welcome to the forum. For starters, follow these steps on the Opus screen:

Edit > Publication Properties > Security tab.

Check the Evaluation box to see the extensive range of evaluation methods you can use. I suggest that you also look at the Help files, and go to the Digital Workshop site, locate and download the Opus Manual -- you should find that useful.

You will get more accurate advice if you tell us what Opus product and version you are using. Also knowing your operating system and something about your hardware will help. If you open your Profile (top of the screen) and add this info to the Signature panel, it will appear on every post -- as it appears on many other posts.

Edit: You mention that you are making a DVD. I'm not sure whether the evaluations apply in the same way with DVDs as they do with CDs

I'd suggest that you might find an incomplete Guide I wrote some time back. It's free and available from

http://www.jeelan.com.au/transfers/OpusGuide.zip

I'm only leaving it on my web site until the end of this month, after which it will not be available.

Hi Ray,

Thanks for your reply. We are making DVD Roms and I am using Opus Pro. What ia looking for is a time out system on gthe disk so if they move it to different computers the disk will time out.

I hope this makes sence

Mark

12 months from what?

The simplest answer is a fixed "shelf life"... specific calendar date as an expiration date after which it won't run. Just have the first Opus page do a check of current Date from system clock against that future end-point (set in a Publication variable, and the default value is that ~June 2009 date).

I have several standalone DVD players, and none of them have any kind of date/calendar, so there's no way an OPUS DVD is going to read any kind of date to know if it should play or expire. I don't think what you want to do is possible -- with any software.

On a computer DVD-ROM, that's a different story. Since you've got a system date available through the computer, then you'd be able to do a date comparison.

Hi Ray,

I was unable to open the web site

Regards

Mark

I'll check that out in the next couple of days and see if I can resolve it.