Vitrium’s DRM policy settings are the digital rights management controls that you can apply at the user, group, file, or folder level. Depending on which edition of Vitrium you have, you can set an expiry date, a browser or PDF limit (similar to a device limit), limit the number of days of offline access, set a print limit, an IP address limit, and more.

1.1 Understand the 2 Important Rules

Before implementing Vitrium DRM policy settings, you should be aware of two important rules:

RULE #1: The most lenient DRM policy setting will always apply no matter where it’s set.

If you set a DRM policy at multiple levels (user and group level for example), the most lenient policy will always override.  Since this can get quite complicated and may cause policy conflicts, Vitrium recommends ONLY setting a DRM policy at one level, or reviewing the Section 4.0 to learn more about setting up DRM policies at multiple levels.

RULE #2: You must enter a value for EVERY field in a DRM policy.
If you only plan to set a DRM policy at one level (the group level for example), you need to ensure that no field is left to ‘not set’, otherwise the user will receive an error message when trying to login or access a protected content. You should set the field to Never, Unlimited or enter a specific date or numerical value depending on the policy field (see Section 2.1 for more details about these fields). If you are planning to set a DRM policy at multiple levels, you can leave a policy field to ‘not set’ as long as it’s set at some level. Check out this video to learn more: Vitrium DRM Policy Video #2: Setting DRM Policies at Multiple Levels.  

1.2 Different Levels You Can Apply a DRM Policy to 

You can apply a DRM policy to different levels but we strongly recommend to most customers only applying a DRM policy to one level to limit the possible conflicts per rule #1 above.