Defining Source Protection for an Add-On Instruction

You can apply source protection to your Add-On Instruction to protect your intellectual property or prevent unintended edits of a validated source.

With source protection you can limit a user of your Add-On Instruction to readonly access or prevent access to the internal logic or local tags used by the instruction. You can protect the use and modification of your instructions with a source key file when you distribute them.

You have two options when using source protection.

· Source Protected

Users without the source key cannot view any routine or local tags, or make any edits to the Add-On Instruction. Choose this option if you want to protect the source definition of an Add-On Instruction from the view of a user. This may be due to the proprietary nature of the algorithms or for strict revision control.

· Source Protected with Viewable Option

Users without the source key can view all components of the Add-On Instruction including its logic and local tags, but are prevented from making any edits to the instruction.

Enable the Source Protection Feature

If source protection is unavailable and not listed in your menus, you can enable it by using the RS5KSrcPtc.exe tool on your installation CD.