Category: Features

In this blog guide, we will cover a method of blocking expired licenses automatically in Cryptolens. This guide is based on a page from our documentation, which you can find here.

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The first step is to sign in to Cryptolens and go to the Product Page. Click on Edit Feature Names.

To implement automatic blocking of expired licenses, Cryptolens must know which licenses are time-limited, and there are two methods of doing that:

1. You can designate a specific feature to be time-limited. To implement this method, simply choose what feature you want to be the time-limited feature, and enable it for the licenses you want to automatically block after they expire.

2. You can also treat all licenses as time-limited, meaning that any license regardless of its features will automatically be blocked after it expires. To implement this, simply click on the checkbox below the feature list called “Treat all licenses as time-limited”.

Regardless of what method you choose, you must click on the checkbox below the feature list called “Block expired licenses”. Press Save.

Now you know more about blocking expired licenses automatically in Cryptolens. But what about deleting license keys completely? You cannot remove expired licenses due to security reasons. It is however important to block licenses that are not used. This is because Cryptolens charges a small fee for each active license.

There is also a way to automatically send email notifications to customers when their license is about to expire. You can find that tutorial here.

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This blog features a convenient way of speeding up license creation using license templates in Cryptolens. Issuing multiple licenses with the same expiry date and enabled features can speed up the license creation process and make your work easier.

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The feature covered in this blog is called License Templates, and you can read the full documentation here.

License Templates tutorial

Start by signing in to Cryptolens, and go to the product you want to create a license template for. Click on “Create a new key” like you normally do to issue a license manually.

Select the features and the expiry date that you want. Instead of clicking on Create, you should click on Save as Template.

Give the license template a name. Notice that the “Parameters” field is already filled out. If you want to customize the parameters of your license template, please read the existing documentation.

When you are done customizing your template, click on Create.

Go back to the product and click on “Create a new key”. You should now be able to see the license template you created in the field called “License Templates”.

To make a new license with the same features and expiry date as you selected for the license template, simply select your newly created license template in that field, and click on the Create button to the right of the drop-down menu.

Know you now more about speeding up license creation using license templates in Cryptolens. This method is useful if you, for example, want to issue multiple yearly or monthly licenses with the same features. It is also possible to retrieve the license templates through the API if you prefer to use the API for license creation.

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In this blog, we will cover how you can automatically notify customers at license expiration in Cryptolens. You will be able to select time intervals for the emails and choose to send a copy to your own email as well.

We have also uploaded this guide as a video if you find that more convenient:

This guide is based on a page in our documentation that you can find here.

Setting up automatic expiration emails

Sign in to Cryptolens and head to the Product Page. For an existing product, click on “Edit Features” and scroll down. Click on the checkbox called “Automatic expiration notification” and then click on Save.

You have enabled the feature, but you need to specify which licenses are time-limited. Do this in one of these two ways:

1. You can designate a particular feature to be the time-limited feature, meaning that any license with that particular feature set as true will be treated as time-limited.
2. You can treat all licenses for your selected product as time-limited.

1: To designate a particular feature to be time-limited, simply select the “Time Limited” option in the drop-down menu for a particular feature’s “Type”, which can be found at the top of the Edit Feature Names page. Enable the chosen feature for the licenses you want to send email notifications to. Click on Save.

2: Click on the checkbox below the list of features near the top of the Edit Features Names page called “Treat all licenses as time-limited”. Click on Save.

Now that Cryptolens knows which licenses are time-limited, your customers will receive 3 email notifications, one 7 days in advance, one 3 days in advance, and one on the day that the license expires.

Customizing the time intervals

You can customize when to send the emails and how many to send. To do this, head to the Product Page once again, and click on Data Objects.

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Copy the object name above and paste it into the field called “Name”.

By default, the string value is 0,3,7, meaning that an email will be sent 0 days prior, 3 days prior, and 7 days prior to the license expiration date. Simply change this string value to whatever time intervals you want. If you want to send more emails, just add a comma (,) and specify how many days prior to license expiration you want to send an email. For example, to send an extra email 10 days in advance, simply modify the string to be 0,3,7,10. Press on Create when you have chosen your preferred time intervals.

Sending a copy to your own email address

Stay on the Data Objects page to set it up so that you receive a copy of the email sent to customers.

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Copy the data name above and paste it into the Name field. Provide the email to which you want the copy sent in the String Value field. Press on Create.

Now you know how to automatically notify customers at license expiration in Cryptolens.

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In this blog, we will discuss how you can add more features in addition to the 8 features that come out of the box when using Cryptolens and our software licensing system. You will also learn how to create feature hierarchies.

This guide is also available as a video tutorial in case you prefer to take in information that way:

The first step is to sign in to Cryptolens and bring up the Product Page. Once you have created a product and a license key, you may already be aware that you can click on the license key to enable or disable up to 8 features.

Let’s suppose that you’d like to add feature 9, or even define a feature hierarchy where you create a module with multiple sub-modules. This can easily be done using Feature Templates, which are described in more detail in our documentation.

Multiple Features Without Hierarchy

The example listed below allows you to add additional features without defining any feature hierarchy.

["ModuleA", "ModuleB", "ModuleC"]

You may change the name and the number of new features in the code to suit your needs. If you do not wish to make any changes, simply copy the code above and head back to the Product Page on the Cryptolens dashboard. Click on “Edit Feature Names”.

Scroll down to find the Feature Template field, and paste the copied or modified code into that field. Press the Save button and go back to the Product Page. When you press a license key, the new features will now appear below the original 8 features. The end result is shown below.

Multiple Features With Hierarchy

Let’s now suppose that you would like to add a sub-module to a particular feature. In this example, you will learn how to create two sub-modules for Module B, but the same logic can be applied to define whatever hierarchy suits your needs the best.

This section begins after the above-mentioned one ends, so if you have not already, please begin with the steps mentioned above regarding “Multiple Features Without Hierarchy”.

Head back to your Product Page on the Cryptolens Dashboard and press “Edit Feature Names”. Scroll down to the Feature Template field to find the code you pasted earlier. To define feature hierarchies, you will have to modify this code slightly.

The following code shows how to create two sub-modules for Module B. Simply replace “ModuleB” from the code in the Feature Template field with the following code:

["Module B", ["Submodule 1", "Submodule 2"]]

As you can see, the first element in the list is the name of the main feature, and the following elements will be the associated sub-modules. Using the same logic, you can define whatever feature hierarchy suits your needs. Keep in mind that you also can define sub-sub-modules.

The following code shows the end result if you just want to make three new features, whereas Module B has two sub-modules:

["ModuleA", ["Module B", ["Submodule 1", "Submodule 2"]] , "ModuleC"]

When you have created your desired hierarchy, hit Save, go back to the Product Page, and click on the license key. You will now see additional features listed below the original 8, with the hierarchy you have defined.

Below you will find what the hierarchy looks like from our example.

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