Subscription to Excel Spreadsheet

J

javawzl

We want to limit access to an Excel spreadsheet on the client based on a
subscription model (think of Napster music subscription for music; we want an
Excel subscription for content/functionality).

The user would ...

1. subscribe online

2. download the Excel spreadsheet from our server

3. a web service would ping our server to see that the bills were paid and
access to the spreadsheet would be given/removed accordingly

Obviously, the less funcationality coupled with the spreadsheet the better
(just want a simple conduit that communicates with the server).

Is there a third party COM, library, macro, web service turn key solution
that would enable us to do this? Any suggestions on how to implement would be
appreciated.
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

You may want to post this in the MS Office Excel discussion group using the link below.

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We want to limit access to an Excel spreadsheet on the client based on a
subscription model (think of Napster music subscription for music; we want an
Excel subscription for content/functionality).

The user would ...

1. subscribe online

2. download the Excel spreadsheet from our server

3. a web service would ping our server to see that the bills were paid and
access to the spreadsheet would be given/removed accordingly

Obviously, the less funcationality coupled with the spreadsheet the better
(just want a simple conduit that communicates with the server).

Is there a third party COM, library, macro, web service turn key solution
that would enable us to do this? Any suggestions on how to implement would be
appreciated.>>
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Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.excel

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com
 
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