Need to make a customized model as Non-Editable

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I have a requirement in which i need to make my customized model as non -editable by enabling license. Please suggest what steps i need to follow to achieve the same .

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Rajat Agarwal

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Martin Dráb 237,948 Most Valuable Professional on at

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The key question is whether you want to give users source code or not. If not, you can give them just a binary model, so they have no source code to edit. On the other hand, they'll have a hard time finding extensions points etc.

If you give them source code, they surely can change the text files. In theory, the license could be bound to an assembly signed by your private key, or a hash of binary files, which would prevent others to use their modified source code at runtime. But no such as a solution exists in F&O, AFAIK.

Note that you can use a combination of both - have such sensitive parts as a binary model and the rest as a normal model.

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Thanks for your response Martin.

In my case i want to make it license enabled and users can only make the changes only if they have license key

so basically its conditional if they have the license key then users should be able to access/edit the source code otherwise it would be like ISV model.

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Rajat Agarwal

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Martin Dráb 237,948 Most Valuable Professional on at

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A license applies at runtime, controlling which parts of F&O users can use, while source code are text files on developers' machines. If you give developers XML files with source, then can edit these, regardless of what license is or isn't installed to an F&O environment.

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Apologies for my mistake earlier i confirmed we can't give access of source code to users.. Please suggest the steps i need to follow if i need to lock the source code as well.

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Rajat Agarwal

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Martin Dráb 237,948 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If you don't want to share your code with your customer, despite of making extensions and debugging of your logic extremely challenging for them, simply don't give it to them. What they need to run your solution are binaries that you created by compiling your source code; not the original source code. For example, you may just give them a deployable package, or manually exclude unncessary folders from your model.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 301,069 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Rajat,

Martin is fully correct here. Note that even when you only provide the binaries, a developer can extend the ISV solution without having the original source code. There is no option to prevent that. All objects are listed in Visual Studio, but with the objects highlighted with a italic font. It will be only quite hard when they don't know the exact source code of all the objects. However adding fields to tables, forms, and data entities is a fairly simple exercise.

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