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The Compiler Options dialog box is a four-tabbed dialog allowing control of various elements of the presentation. Settings you enter here are remembered from Compile to Compile, so you don't have to keep entering them. (However, this dialog will automatically appear if no target output file has been specified).

The "General" tab.

Allows you to specify the target output file for your compiled presentation, and the location of the Icon that the compiled presentation will use (this is compiled in, you don't have to ship it!). Only 32*32 pixel, 16 color icons (with a filesize of 766 bytes) are supported. If you don't select an alternative icon you will get the standard WebCompiler icon.

The "Interface" tab.

Allows you to control various aspects of the presentation including

which controls the user can use,

the size that the presentation initially starts at (cleanscreen mode is ideal for "kiosk" style presentations and unless you provide the user with an exit route by using a jump to the special bookmark #WCEXIT the user will have difficulty getting out of the presentation. In fact on Windows 95/98 we think it is impossible without a power-off or reset, but on NT the user can always reach the Task manager with Ctr+Alt+Del).

The Target Frame Name to use if a page is found during a search operation and the current document contains Frames. See the FAQ for more details about this.

The Interface Translation File to use to provide a non-English Language Interface. For more details see the section on "Using a Different Language".

The "Validity" tab.

Allows you to specify a date beyond which the presentation is no longer valid. You must also specify a page that will be displayed instead of the normal home page. You would probably want to detail some means of getting an up-to-date version for example. Please make sure you test thoroughly any presentation using this, people will not be pleased if they come across an expired presentation having spent a long time downloading it!

The "Page Protection" tab.

This tab allows you to control "Page Protection" for your presentation. Basically, this enables you to provide passwords on individual pages, with passwords being different for different users. Each page you want to protect is given a "key" by navigating to the page and selecting the "Utilities/Define Page Password Key" menu item.

The overall presentation is then given a "Master Key" on this dialog (anything you like, but take care not to change it after you have distributed your presentation - write it down), and a page is defined that will be displayed if the user enters an invalid password (presumably a page that tells him how to go about getting a valid password).

Then to provide a password for a user, assign him a Userid (could be his name, or a number, or whatever you want really) and enter it in the User Key box, select the page you want to provide a password for from the list, make sure the Master Key is the same as when you distributed the presentation, and press the "Show" button. The password for that page for that Userid will be displayed in the "Password is - " box, and the userid and password combination will also be copied to the clipboard to make it easy for you to paste it into an e-mail or onto an invoice or similar.

Take care if you are password protecting multiple pages to use the same UserId each time for the same user/ The user's UserId is cached, and he only has to enter the userid and password once for each page and will then always have access to it, even if he exits and re-enters the presentation. But if you give him two passwords associated with two different Userids he will be forever entering the different Userids, as it only caches the last entered Userid for a presentation.

You obviously have to make sure the "Page Protection Enabled" checkbox is checked, otherwise there is no Page Protection at all.

If you use Page Protection, make sure you test your presentation with the some sample Userid/Passwords combinations to make sure it is working the way you think it is/want it to.

If you need to clear cached Userid/Password combinations you can do so by running the compiled presentation and holding down the Ctrl key while exiting using File/Close. You will also lose any favorites associated with the presentation.

Note that everything to do with Page Protection, except the final generated passwords, is Case Sensitive, so "PassWord" is not the same as "password", "MasterKey" is not the same as "MASTERKEY" for example.