How to Lock an Ignition Project After Deployment to a Client?

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Best practice to prevent to stolen ignition resources

Hi, As system integrator, there are some cases that I like to protect my resources in ignition after delivering project to client. For example creating a library that use resources like python lib and views,… In other SCADA packages I can put password and encrypted the resource. The resource can be used by system but can’t modify by others unless they know password. The protect option in ignition doesn’t work because when other can access to gateway config they can change the role and passwo…

In general, the most protection you can get is to make a 3rd party module with the SDK to encapsulate the most critical functionality as scripting or expression functions or custom UI components.