There are means to hide it in such a way that it will need rather good knowledge and some criminal effort to uncover it, but usually these approaches turn out to be surprisingly simple to hack if you let the right people try. The only drawback with using the free CDF player for your use case that I see is that it's not possible to securely hide your code (except for whatever you write yourself to hide it, which might be more or less hard to uncover). It's easy enough to create a Manipulate with the desired functionality, though: Manipulate,ĭateListPlot]), You will find other answers with examples that show that it is also not necessary to use a Manipulate, you can very well deploy a custom gui based on e.g. It's not necessary that the interactivity within a CDF document is more complicated than reacting to a button press :-). I think this sounds like an ideal use case for a CDF document and the free CDF player to 'play' it. P.S., We don't seem to have a tag for 'player'. I think you can see that I want simple, robust, and secure for this. Should I go with Player or Player Pro and simply hide the cells with functions? So, can anyone suggest the best solution for distributing such a computable but otherwise non-interactive report? It doesn't have any need for a Manipulate as I see it, so at first thought CDF seems the wrong fit. Ideally, the end user should only see the latest report and the 'Run report' button. The code for the actual report uses some proprietary functions, which I want to protect and hide from the user. It requires only a single interaction with the user: pushing the 'Run report' button (or some equivalent means of evaluating the code). The notebook as it stands gets computable data via FinancialData for a single instrument and has hard code for all other required inputs. I can get them a copy of Mathematica, but that seems overkill for this. I want to distribute this to a single user who will run (or execute) it a couple of times a day. I have a notebook, which contains a dozen or so custom functions all leading to the production of a simple static report, something like this:

Playing cdf files in worlfram player