Appendix B: Properties File Options

This appendix summarises 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 dialogue to user during first software start-up, leave this value empty.

allow.subscription.warning

Yes/No

Enable to allow the user to be warned of pending licence expiration.

Note: This setting only applies to Subscription licences.

max.days.borrow.license

1 - 365

The time (in days) the user is allowed to borrow a licence when using a concurrent licence that has borrowing enabled.

Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent licences.

allow.license.borrow

Yes/No

Enable to allow licence borrowing (local licence) when using a concurrent licence that has borrowing enabled.

Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent licences.

subscription.warning.days

1 - 31

The time (in days) prior to licence expiration for user to be warned.

Note: This setting only applies to Subscription licences.

subscription.warned.already

True/False

Enable to hide the subscription warning dialogue displaying remaining active time for a subscription licence.

Note: This setting only applies to Subscription licences.

license.server.3

Hostname or IP Address

Points the TI software to a tertiary licence-service computer for licence checkout.

Note: The IP address must be IPv4.

Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent and School-Managed licences.

license.server.2

Hostname or IP Address

Points the TI software to a secondary licence-service computer for licence checkout.

Note: The IP address must be IPv4.

Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent and School-Managed licences.

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 licence-service computer for licence checkout.

Note: The IP address must be IPv4.

Note: This setting only applies to Concurrent and School-Managed licences.

license.number

Auto-populated

Displays the licence number used to activate the software. Valid for single and volume licences.

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 15 August 2011 at 2:30 p.m., this entry would appear: TINspireCASTeacherEdition-Success- ClassDesktop01-20110815-1430.log

license.number

A valid 31-digit licence number.

Licence Number of the TI software to be activated on the client computer. The licence 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.