Is there a way of password protecting a help file, or giving it an expiry date?

[jkwe_ghksjghd_ks]

We supply our software (written in VBA/VB6 and C++) with yearly license keys. Ideally we want our help file to be inaccessible once these keys have expired.

Is there any way of achieving this with Robohelp?

We also need some of the help file to be accessible via links from custom excel functions.

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi jkwe ghksjghd ks and welcome to the RH community.

There is no way of doing this from within RH but perhaps your application can do this in the same way that some trial versions cease after a set period. The issue here is that if a user navigated to the help file manually, could they open it. Again perhaps there is something your application can do here but the file would remain on the user's PC. Is there a business reason why the help shouldn't be viewed?

[RoboColum_n_]

Click here for a password protect option.

[jkwe_ghksjghd_ks]

The main reason for protecting the help file is for business purposes. We will be documenting a lot of the custom excel functions and mathematical formulas behind them.

An unprotected help file could potentially be a Software Specification for competitors so something we'd like to avoid.

Apologies for the slightly unusual forum name - everything i tried had been taken!

[RoboColum_n_]

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Originally posted by: jkwe ghksjghd ks
Apologies for the slightly unusual forum name - everything i tried had been taken!

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I did wonder. It looks like my typing after a heavy night