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Product Registration

How the Registration Program Works

The registration program will search for all Data Access products in the current directory – where the registration program is running from – and list them in its product tree. For each product found, the program tries to locate their licenses and displays the registration details under the product name.

The directory being searched will be displayed at the bottom of the tree, next to “Product Information read from”.

In order to enable the Register button, all three forms – Serial Number, Registration Name, and Registration Code – need to be filled in. The Make Active (for Web Application Server and DataFlex licenses) and Delete buttons will only be enabled when a registration line is highlighted in the tree.

When registering a product, the tree will be automatically refreshed, and the new registration will be displayed. The total number of users licensed will be displayed on the same line as the product name.

Import from INI

The Registration Program can import the necessary registration information from an .ini file. The file must contain the Serial Number, Registration Name, and Registration Code (it may also contain other information, but only those three data elements are used by the registration program). The information can be in any order, but they must be contained in a section labeled [DataFlex_License_Information], and the mandatory identifying labels must be in place for the import to be successful.

The mandatory identifying labels are:

  • Serial_Number=
  • Registration_Name=
  • Registration_Code=

So a properly formatted .ini file would contain the following minimum elements:

[DataFlex_License_Information]
Serial_Number=xxxxxx
Registration_Name=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Registration_Code=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Note: If you are registering multiple licenses (for instance, combining a Web Server and Windows Client), each set of registration information must be in a separate .ini file.

Important Notes

  1. An evaluation license is always replaced and removed from the tree when you enter a real license.
  2. Active licenses cannot be deleted. In order to delete an active license, you will need to first make another license active and then delete the license that was active before.
  3. A license can only be entered for the products and product versions found in the current directory.
  4. The only products that can have their licenses selected as active are: DataFlex and Web Application Server.

Product Specific Rules

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