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Appendix B: Properties File Options

This appendix summarizes the options for the settings.properties and deployment.properties files.

Note: Make sure that you download the latest properties files that include the current options.

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Settings.properties File Options

Option	Accepted Values	Comment
allow.analytics	True/False	Silently enables (True) or silently disables (False) the automatic collection of anonymous information about product usage and product reliability. User can enable or disable analytics anytime through the Help menu. To automatically display a dialog to user during first software startup, leave this value empty.
allow.subscription.warning	Yes/No	Enable to allow the user to be warned of pending license expiration. Note: This setting only applies to Subscription licenses.
max.days.borrow.license	1 - 365	The time (in days) the user is allowed to borrow a license when using a concurrent license that has borrowing enabled. Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent licenses.
allow.license.borrow	Yes/No	Enable to allow license borrowing (local license) when using a concurrent license that has borrowing enabled. Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent licenses.
subscription.warning.days	1 - 31	The time (in days) prior to license expiration for user to be warned. Note: This setting only applies to Subscription licenses.
subscription.warned.already	True/False	Enable to hide the subscription warning dialog displaying remaining active time for a subscription license. Note: This setting only applies to Subscription licenses.
license.server.3	Hostname or IP Address	Points the TI software to a tertiary license-service computer for license checkout. Note: The IP address must be IPv4. Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent and School-Managed licenses.
license.server.2	Hostname or IP Address	Points the TI software to a secondary license-service computer for license checkout. Note: The IP address must be IPv4. Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent and School-Managed licenses.
allow.auto.upgrade	True/False	When set to YES, allows automatic updates to Texas Instruments software on computers running the TI software. Computer(s) are notified of available software updates. To receive notices, users must have Internet access, and port 80 must be open.
license.server	Hostname or IP Address	Points the TI software to the license-service computer for license checkout. Note: The IP address must be IPv4. Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent and School-Managed licenses.
license.number	Auto-populated	Displays the license number used to activate the software. Valid for single and volume licenses.
preferred.hosts	Semicolon (;) delimited set of <Hostname or IP address>:<port>	Allows the administrator to specify the host(s) to query for available classes when multi-casting is disabled on the network. Note: This option is used only in TI-Nspire™ Student Software and TI-Nspire™ CAS Student Software.
database.path	A Unix, UNC, or Windows file path. These paths may use environment variables, but will not work with the tilde (~) character.	Allows the administrator to set the path that the software checks for a database on launch. Setting this property disables the user's ability to change the database path in the software. Note: This setting only applies to TI-Nspire™ Navigator™ Teacher Software and TI-Nspire™ Navigator™ NC Teacher Software. Note: Texas Instruments recommends that this path be set to a local file system path.
testmode.configurations	<Configuration Name>[XXXX-XXXX]. Maximum allowable name length is 32 characters. Special Characters are not valid.	Allows the administrator to specify up to nine Test Mode Configurations. Accepted Format for one configuration: testmode.configurations=<Configuration Name>[XXXX-XXXX] Accepted Format for multiple configurations: testmode.configurations=<Configuration Name 1>[XXXX-XXXX],<Configuration Name 2>[XXXX-XXXX],...,<Configuration Name 9>[XXXX-XXXX]. Note: This option is used only in TI-Nspire™ Student Software and TI-Nspire™ CAS Student Software. Calculate test code using "Choose Test Mode Restrictions..." in the TI-Nspire™ Student Software or TI-Nspire™ CAS Student Software.

Deployment.properties File Options

Option	Accepted Values	Comment
deploy.log.dir	A valid Unix, UNC, or Windows path.	Creates an empty file immediately after activation. The file name indicates success or failure using the following format: <AppName>-<Success/Failure>- <Host name>-<Date>-<Time>.log Example, if TI-Nspire™ CAS Teacher Software were installed successfully on the ClassDesktop01 computer on August 15, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., this entry would appear: TINspireCASTeacherEdition-Success- ClassDesktop01-20110815-1430.log
license.number	A valid 31-digit license number.	License Number of the TI software to be activated on the client computer. The license number should include dashes.
activation.time.limit	1 - 600	When ACTIVATE is set to YES, the software chooses a random value between 1 and the specified value to wait before the activation Volume attempt and between attempts. This prevents a large number of clients from attempting to communicate with the activation server at the same time. The system tries automatically to activate up to three times.