Alex

I assume that you are saving the IOK with the Owner-locking security option applied? This means that only the machine with that license key can make changes to the file, but it also means that copying and exporting data from the owner-locked IOK file is not allowed from other machines/license keys.

The ILF file wrapper for the IOK file is just a deployment convenience, and has no security options of its own.

In short, if you apply owner-locking to an IOK file, there should be no cut-paste from any view, and no data export options. Can you confirm what kind of copying you are doing from the Pivot View? Are you using a machine/license key other than the one that saved the IOK file? What version are you using?

Did you intend to prohibit copying or just changes to the configuration of the IOK file?

Hi Thomas,

The file is owner-locked on our server running 2.8. On a local machine with a viewer, I can copy from the pivot view, but not from the table view. Same works on my desktop key.

I am using CTRL+C/V to copy from the pivot view.

We intend to allow the user to copy from the view, without allowing the user to save the file locally (with the possiblity to distribute it).

The Pivot View usually only shows two-way aggregated data, so it is not normally possible to make a full copy of the granular source data via cut-paste from the Pivot View .

In the Table View, however, a file recipient could make a cut-paste copy of the full granular data set. That is why owner-locking disables cut-paste in the Table View.

If you configure extra tabs in the Pivot View that your recipients can copy, you can continue to apply owner-locking to the file.

Correct, you cannot the copy the source data in from the pivot. You copy the "shown" results.

Can we prohibit the saving of the file, any other way then Owner locking?

If your audience has the Viewer edition - please save the file with a Desktop license. This means the file will not be empowered, therefore the Viewers will not be able to save any changes.

Hi Paola

Do I understand correctly that this is not possible with the server edition that saves the IOk file?

Files created by Server edition will automatically be 'empowerered' and there is currently no way to disable this. Why do you want to prevent your recipients from saving the file? Is it because there is a new one every day and no live refresh? Are you time limiting the files so they only open for one day, and prompt the user to download the new version?

Hi Paola,

We need to protect our files from distribution outside our Management Information platform.
This platform ensure security and user access. Webstart supports this but has, as you know, RAM limits.
That’s why we introduced .ilf for our clients, but they still need to start the report online from our platform.

As we want our clients to open reports online, we want to prevent that iok files are saved outside.
However, some clients need to be able to copy and paste the data. Some don’t.

For us the following features would be very useful:
1 - Owner locked so file cannot be saved but data can be copied
2 - Owner locked and file cannot be saved and coping data is also prohibited

Would this be possible.

In the meantime our solution for feature 1 is a timelock I guess?