Digital Workshop

I have a client who would like a training program to expire in 5 years time, as some of the data will have changed.

I was hoping that the evaluation expiry function could be used as a quick soluion to achieve this, however its maximum time frame is 365 days.

I guess I can workaround this by writing to the registry etc, however I saw the expiry as a great solution, is there any technical reason why the expiry / timeout function couldn't be amended to allow 9999 days or 1825 days (5 years)?

I would love to have it increased - anyone else?

Thanks

Don

During a period of 5 years most computers have their drives formatted and OS's reinstalled, that's if they haven't been junked.
This makes storing data in the registry a risky business for long periods of time.
One solution would be to hard wire expiration dates into the pub, with all the disadvantages that go with it.
Otherwise you could require internet access on a regular basis to check the value of a server accessed control variable.

I don't suppose you could talk your client around to a shorter timeframe? -5 years is a long time in the life of a computer.

cheers
Paul

Hi Paul,

I know your right with regards to the timeframe, however my client has literally just changed to XP and MS Office 2003 they have numerous sights located around the state and very tight admin control on the systems.

I think your suggestion of hard wiring into the pub will be the ultimate solution.

I would still like to have the expiry date increased to at least two years.

Regards

Don

I realize this is Wishlist zone. And I tend to agree with the request, though I have no actual project to use it.

Perhaps as workaround, you could get the client to agree to one or more fixed dates in the future, and then just hard-code a script object to do a simple compare of system time against a hard stop date.

Thanks Lar_123,

Thats basically what I am doing for the client at the moment, I just thought that as this featuure does exactly what I want, except for the timefame I thought I'd mention it.

Cheers

Don

Kpl,

Just to clarify, what I was suggesting would not involve writing to the registry and not to external files. Just read system date and conduct a 'compare' at runtime. 'yes', good to enrich the Appl. with the Wishlist here.

In Version 6, I would like to see the option of entering our own wording to the Evaluation Expiry text, to be able to change to such things as 'Subscription Expires" or "Demo Version Expires" or "Program Trial Expires"and so on......... Then enter Unlock Key to Renew Subscription ETC....