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Licensing


Trial Period

CCDAutoPilot begins with a trial license to the Professional (multi-target) edition that allows you to see how it works with your particular system before you must purchase a license.  The trial period is 60 days and 15 uses.  This means you can use it as often as you wish in the first 60 days but if you don't use it at all in that period, you still have 15 trial starts regardless of how long after that you load the program.  While you are in the trial period, an opening screen tells you how many days you have left in the trial.  



In this example, there are 29 days remaining in the trial period.  This screen is no longer displayed when the product is licensed.  If the trial period is expired, you will see this screen:



If you hit the No button, the program will exit.  The Yes button will take you to the licensing dialog.


License Selection

Licensing can be accessed at any time from the Help | Register menu.  There a a number of possibilities for licensing, depending on the Edition you are licensing and whether or not you are upgrading from version 2 of CCDAutoPilot.  



If you respond yes, you will be presented with an opportunity to enter your CCDAutoPilot2 registration info.  If successfully entered, you will see:



If not, you will see:



From this point on, you will be presented with one of the following two screens:

  or 

When you purchase your license, you should purchase the one appropriate for whether or not you have an existing license to CCDAutoPilot2.  The license keys are not interchangeable.  If you are using an full license key, it can not be used with a valid CCDAutoPilot2 license present.  After making your choice on whether to license the Standard or Professional Edition, you will be presented with one of the following screens:

  or 



If you have licensed the Standard Edition and are upgrading to the Professional edition, selecting the Help | Register menu item will bring up the following screens:

  followed by 



Entering the license info

From this point, you will get an information screen and finally the registration screen, as shown below:



In the above example, the Trial Period is expired.  If you are entering your license information before trial expiration, you will still see a similar screen, without the "Expired" statement.  Hit the EnterKeyCode... button and you will see this final screen:



Enter your Email as your ID and the key you received as the Unlock code.  Hit OK and you will be registered.  You may confirm your successful registration by selecting the Help | About menu item.