Limiting the "Number" of Installations

[garhop]

Can some one offer the Action that will limit the number of times the Installation .exe can be run? Say... limit it to 3 Installs. Currently using version 6.0.0.2

Thank you,
Gary

[This message has been edited by garhop (edited 01-24-2002).]

[Mark]

Re: Limiting the "Number" of Installations

Hi,

It is possible to limit the number of installations on a certain machine, but not the number of installations on all machines. There simply is no way for setup factory to "save" this information.

If you want to save the number of times an installation was run on a single computer, simply write this information into the registry.

mark.

[Lorne]

Re: Limiting the "Number" of Installations

It is possible to limit the number of installations on a certain machine, but not the number of installations on all machines. There simply is no way for setup factory to "save" this information.

Well, actually there would be a way to do it...you could use a SubmitToWeb action to upload some kind of system-specific code (perhaps based on the NIC's MAC address or some other system-specific value) and return an "okay to install/not okay to install" response from the CGI program.

Caveats: the user would only be able to install the software on a machine that is connected to the Internet and is able to connect to the CGI program's URL...and, obviously, you'd need to write the CGI program (for example, using PHP/MySQL) and host it somewhere.

[garhop]

Re: Limiting the "Number" of Installations

Lorne, Mark,

Thanks guys.
Gary