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As you can see from the two different scenarios below, a pool of token-based licenses gives customers significantly more flexibility than purchasing a specific number of licenses for each feature. The users can check out any combination of the features, up to the maximum 20-license limit.

Example Scenario 1

Feature

# of licenses consumed per checkout

# of checkout requests

Total licenses consumed

MyDraw

5

2

10

MyWrite

2

3

6

MySpreadsheet

1

3

3

Totals

 

8

19

Number of licenses remaining

 

 

1

Example Scenario 2

Feature

# of licenses consumed per checkout

# of checkout requests

Licenses consumed

MyDraw

5

1

5

MyWrite

2

4

8

MySpreadsheet

1

7

7

Totals

 

11

20

Number of licenses remaining

 

 

0

Example

The following example shows a token-based license for the license pool scenario described above, where MySolutions is a license pool that is drawn upon to fulfill license requests for MyDraw, MyWrite and MySpreadsheet.

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For example, MyDraw may be composed of two modules: Sketcher and Printer. A token-based license can specify that in order to use MyDraw, you must have 1 license of each of the two modules.

Example

The following example shows a token-based license for the product suite license scenario described above.

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The order of the token-based licenses in the license file determines the order that alternate checkouts are attempted. For example, if the MyDraw features's Lower_Priced_License token-based license precedes the Higher_Priced_License token-based license, then Lower_Priced_License will be preferred for filling checkout requests. Higher_Priced_License will be used only if Lower_Priced_License is unavailable. End users can change the license order if they desire.

Example

The following example shows a license for the alternate license scenario described above. Note that the first MyDraw token-based license refers to Lower_Priced_License, so this will be the preferred license for MyDraw checkout requests.

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The maximum number of recursive dependencies you may define for a token-based license is 256. (However, there is no limit on the number of token-based licenses you may define.)

Example

The following example shows a token-based license for the cascading license scenario described above.

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