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Chapter 10: Working with Custom commands

Using the MyCommands Protection

Utility

In Dragon Medical and DragonLegal, when you export a set of custom

Text-and-Graphics

Step-

by-Step

Custom Command

, and/or

Advanced Scripting

commands into a

.dat

file, you can

set the permissions on that file so that after a user imports them, that user can dictate the com-

mands but cannot view their source code, edit their source code, or re-export the commands. As a

result, the integrity of the commands remains intact.

To set the permissions on the

.dat

file of commands to protect the commands in this way:

1. Make a backup copy of the unprotected

.dat

file and store it in a secure location. You later use

that file to edit the commands, because once you protect the

.dat

file that you are distributing,

you cannot make the file available for editing again.

2. Select

Start

>

Run

and enter

cmd

into the

Run

dialog box.

3. Change directories to (In Windows XP)<drive letter>:\Documents and

Settings\<user name>\Application

Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Custom\<language>

See Dragon file structure for information on default location on Windows Vista and other oper-

ating systems.

4. Enter the following on the command line:

protectcmds.exe <dat-file-path> <vendor-name> [<vendor-contact-info>]

5. Once you press return, after a user imports these commands, if that user attempts to edit any of

them, the following message indicates that the commands cannot be edited:

The command was protected by

<vendor-name>

Please contact

<vendor-contact-info>

for more information.

In the

Command Browser

, the same message appears as the

Preview Content

Script

mode.

Once you have protected the file, you can put it into the

Data Distribution

directory for dis-

tribution to multiple User Profiles. For more information about distributing saved commands,

refer to Creating the Data Distribution Directory, then refer to one of the following topics about

distributing commands to multiple User Profiles by either:

n Using the

Data Distribution Tool

(Data Distribution Tool: Adding and removing custom

commands)

n Using the

nsadmin

command line tool (nsadmin: Adding custom commands)

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