Facility Control

Hi Tobias.
There are generally 2 steps to locking a panel:
1. Adding an editlock password
2. Encrypting the panel so it cannot be opened in an external editor like Notepad

Here is an example that turns encryption on and sets the edit mode password to "Tobias"

If you don't need the encryption, you can turn it off by removing encrypt="SimpleEncrypt" - this is a bit nicer if you ever do need to edit it outside of DashBoard and/or want to store it in a version control system like SVN.

<abs contexttype="opengear" editlock="Tobias" encrypt="SimpleEncrypt" style="">
<label height="124" left="16" name="My password is &quot;Tobias&quot;" style="txt-align:west" top="19" width="381"/>
</abs>

I know this is an old thread, but is there an advanced version of this encrypt model? For example, something that would require you to enter the encryption key to actually run the grid/program. As it is right now, the XML is not protected from Dashboard itself (as it runs without entering a password), so anyone that knows the encryption algorithm that Dashboard/Ross uses could reverse engineer the code. 

Hi Bradley

Presently, the only key phrase to control the encryption is "SimpleEncrypt". No advanced mode with a user-settable encryption key is available at this time. 

James

This is great! Thank you for the post.