Hello. Could anyone advise whether it is possible to get subscription information with the VBA. I would like to know preferably which subscription a user is on (Same product has 1 week, 1 month and 3 month subs sold / managed online within WooCommerce Subscriptions so authentication/validation occurs at each load) or at least how many days left on the current subscription. I am aware it is possible to get the number of days remaining on a trial, but have not spotted any code that I believe will get the information I am looking for as I have not enabled the trial functionality. I am very happy to elaborate on any details if it will help.
Many Thanks in advance, Paul
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Just to add to this, it would be great to have the licence key too.
Thanks
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Not yet, but it’s now on our TODO list and we’ll try to add more info accessible to the VBA API.
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Excellent, Thank you
Hello @gdgsupport - I appreciate this is now on the todo list, are you able to oconfirm likely timescales for it please. I really need to be able to identify users within my app and this functionality would solve the issue perfectly for me. Many thanks, Paul
The next incoming XLS Padlock 2022 provides a new VBA API that returns the activation token in encrypted format and optionally new fields provided by the server during the validation process. This will let you pass information to the workbook and use this in your own VBA code.
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Any chance of allowing us to provide and retrieve text (such as a licensee name or feature code) as part of the validation?
That’s the goal of the new API. It will be possible to retrieve custom data sent by the web server. For instance, licensee name.
Could we include the custom information when we generate the activation key from the desktop? That would also be so helpful. It opens the door to an infinite number of feature codes and would allow additional security protection against unauthorized use on the same laptop.
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Excellent. Apologies if I have missed it, but is the new API available now, or do you have an estimated release date please?
@gdgsupport Thank you very much for the new 2022.0 release - it looks like I am now able to get the subscription details (I am using woocommerce, wooCommerce integration, Woo Subscriptions) using the following code below taken from the help file, but it specifically states:
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Please refer to the documentation of the XLS Padlock’s Activation Kit / FastSpring subscription kit / WooCommerce Integration Kit to see how to pass custom data to the workbook app during the validation process.
Can you point me to this document please. I assume I need to do something on the woocommerce side to return the subscription duration, expiry etc, but am unfortunately lost. Many Thanks in advance, Paul
Public Function ReturnValidationAdditionalServerData()
Dim XLSPadlock As Object
On Error GoTo Err
Set XLSPadlock = Application.COMAddIns(“GXLSForm.GXLSFormula”).Object
ReturnValidationAdditionalServerData = XLSPadlock.PLEvalVar(“ValidationAddServerData”)
Exit Function
Err:
ReturnValidationAdditionalServerData= “”
End Function
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Sheet1.Range(“S24”) = ReturnValidationAdditionalServerData()
End Sub
Is there any way we could include the custom information when we generate the activation key from the desktop? That would also be so helpful.