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30 Administrator Guide • 2005Q4
■ Edit the pricing option
■ Create a customized price for a published content item
Changing the pricing of content is dependent on several factors, such as the content
item status, the DRM assigned, and whether the content item is copyrighted.
For a copyrighted content item, the pricing options you can choose from are
dependent on the item’s content type preferences alone because copyrighted content
cannot have a DRM associated with it.
For a submitted content item that has a status of new, pending, or denied and is not
copyrighted, the pricing options you can choose from are dictated by the DRM
associated with the item’s content type.
For a content item with a status of published or testing, the pricing options you can
choose from depend on the following factors:
■ The content item’s current pricing option
■ The currently allowed pricing models for the item’s content type
■ The DRM used by the content item
For example, suppose SpruceDraw, a content item of type midlet is published. At
the time it is published, midlet has no DRM assigned and the pricing model of first
download only. Therefore, SpruceDraw has no DRM assigned to it and uses the first
download only pricing option. If no change occurs to the content type, the Edit
Content page for SpruceDraw allows you to choose either first download only or
every download.
Later, the content type preferences are edited so that midlet now uses OMA DRM
1.0 and the pricing models are changed to first download only and per interval.
Because SpruceDraw is already published, its DRM option does not change, it is still
None. While the available pricing models for midlet are now first download only,
every download, and per interval, the per interval model is not available to content
without DRM protection. So the Edit Content page for SpruceDraw does not list per
interval in the Catalog Price list. When editing SpruceDraw, you can choose from
first download only or every download.
If a content item uses OMA DRM 1.0 and one of the trials, per use, per period, or per
interval pricing models, the pricing model cannot be changed because the content
item would require reprotection, that is, a reapplication of the DRM. You can change
the purchase price of the item, but not whether it has or does not have trial usage or
its pricing model.
Disassociating Content From Pricing Options
Sometimes you or a Vending Manager administrator might want to change the
purchase price of a specific item of content. By doing so, you disassociate a content
item from its pricing option. For example, suppose an item of content named Roses