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Yes, that would work, but initially, you didn’t even need to use the different levels. If you use ccaps, you can use only the level 1 for everything. That way, you dont have to worry about which level to set the ccaps when you have multiples of them.

INterestingly, i got the exact same error message, so i’ll see if something is brought up in this thread. In my case, the transaction at Paypal completed, but the ccaps were not added (and the customer stated that she WAS logged in when she clicked the button), so i just added the ccaps manually, but in case it happens again, i’ll follow this thread.

It seems a bit complex, but maybe you can look at the Ccap clock timer hack that does set a code based on the time of transaction. You might want to look at this post:
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/ccap-clock-timer-perfect-for-magazines/

Maybe once the “timer” is set, you can use that ccap further down?

You need YOUR payments to stop or your members’ payments?

There is a hack that my developer coded and it is called Ccap Drip Timer. In that particular code, it will drip the content based on the time of transaction (instead of the time of registration, which can differ). The complete hack includes a snippet that will set a timestamp to the transaction, but you can probably emulate that and instead of using the timestamp at the time of transaction, you can assign a set ccap that will be the first day of the course. That way, if the course starts on January 5, then you would assign the “timestamp” as if the member made the transaction on that day (so everyone registering until then would have the same “timestamp”) and the dripped content would only start on that day.

Then, if you take on registrations for the next course starting on March 10, as soon as the January course starts, you change the “timestamp” to the one for March 10, and so on.

There is a little bit more information on this post:
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/ccap-drip-timer-drip-multiple-courses/
This will also allow you to drip content on several courses simultaneously, even if they are all on Level 1.

Yes on all the counts.
Using ccaps would be the way to go. You can assign a ccap of “set1” for the first set, then “set2”, “set3” and so on.
You can also have the links protected by conditional, something like this:

[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_ccap_set1)]
    Link to video 1
    Link to video 2
    Link to video 3
[/s2If]
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_ccap_set2)]
    Link to video 4
    Link to video 5
    Link to video 6
[/s2If]

And you can protect the pages with ccaps or conditionals. I tend to prefer the conditionals because you can then keep the visitor on the page they are trying to access, in case they accessed it from some way. Something like this:

[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_ccap_set1)]
    Video 1
    Video 2
    Video3
[/s2If]
[s2If !current_user_can(access_s2member_ccap_set1)]
    Oops, it looks like you reached this page by mistake. If you know you are supposed to access these videos, you probably forgot to log in. If you have not already registered for XYZ, you can purchase a registration at ....
[/s2If]

I have a whole site based on multible ccaps to protect videos for courses. Ccaps are pretty powerful!

You can probably add a condition around that “time code”.
For example, you can sell access to an event that you would call “Event1” (and you associate a Custom capability (ccaps) called “Event1”). Then, you can wrap the code similar to what i used, inside a conditional so the code might look like this:

<?php if(current_user_can("access_s2member_ccap_Event1")){ ?>
<?php if (date("Ymd") == 20121130){ ?>
         This is content will appear on NOv 30th, 2012
    <?php if (date('H') => 12) && (date('H') < 16){ ?>
         placing the event here, it will be accessible starting at 12 noon, until 4pm
    <?php } ?>
<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>

Then, i think it is a matter of playing with those variables. This means that s2Member will check if the member has the ccap called “Event1” and if so, on the set date and time, the event will be accessible. Outside those conditions, the member wont get anything.

Does that make sense?

Also, would this entail configuring s2 for each possible time that link is available?

I would imagine so as the content will be inside the specific code.

Here is part of the code i used:

<?php if (date("Ymd") == 20121103){ ?>
         This is content that appeared only on Nov 3rd, 2012
    <?php if (date('H') == 0){ ?>
        code for the embedded video for 12 minight
    <?php } else if (date('H') == 1){ ?>
        code for the embedded video for 1 am
    <?php } else if (date('H') == 2){ ?>
        code for the embedded video for 2 am
    <?php } else if (date('H') == 3){ ?>
        code for the embedded video for 3 am
    <?php } ?>
<?php } ?>  

I had something like that for each hour over 2 days, and i had a video embedded for each hour. Then, when it turned to Nov 5th, i had a simple message saying “Oops, you missed it”. I am not very advanced in coding and php, so someone else might use this as a start and give you more specific information, or you can use this if it is enough for you need.