The Licenses page lets you view existing license orders and create new license orders.
From here, you can also access the End User Portal to view exactly the same information about existing license orders as your end users see when they activate their license via the End User Portal.
To enter the End User Portal, go to the top of the License Orders grid on the Licenses page and click the View in End User Portal icon.
Viewing an existing license order
The License Orders table grid on the Licenses page lists information about existing licenses, including:
- Activation key
- Customer name
- Product name and version
- Template name used to create the license order
- When the license will expire (listed as "Permanent" if it will not expire, or the date of expiration if not a permanent license, or blank if the license is not yet activated).
- Creation time (the precise time the license was created in the system)
- Update Activation time (the precise activation time , or "Not Activated" if the license has not yet been activated)the license order was last edited)
- Deactivations remaining (the number of times the end user can deactivate a license)
- Deactivations allowed (the maximum number of end-user license deactivations allowed using SOAP API)
- Activations remaining (the number of activations that remain under Creator name (first and last name of the LAC user who created the license order)
Creation time - Activations allowed (the precise time maximum number of activations under the license was created in the system)order)
- Information on whether the end user can activate and/or download the licenses belonging to the license order (the default setting is Enabled).HostID used to activate the license (listed as "Not Locked" if no HostID was required for activation, or blank if not yet activated)
The icons in the Action column let you perform actions for individual license orders, including:
- Edit the license order (see below)
- Deactivate the license order
- Reset the activations counterView the license (generated license text)deactivations counter
- View the license template
- View the license order history (see below)
- Delete the license order
You can save the information from the License Orders table and other tables in LAC as described in Exporting data from LAC.
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To create a license order, click the Create License Order button in the Licenses page. In the Add License Order dialog that displays, enter the license order information as described below.
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Field | Description |
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Enabled | This option sets whether the end user can activate and download licenses belonging to the license order. The default setting is Enabled. |
Customer | The customer who will be receiving the license. The customer must be defined using the Customer page before creating the license for that customer. You can then select the customer from a pick list in the General tab. |
Product | The product that is being licensed. The product must be defined using the Products page before creating the license. You can then select the product from a pick list in the General tab. |
Product template | The template to use for the license. You can select any template that has been created for the product. |
License Order Count | The number of activation keys to create. You can enter a number from 1 to 500. |
Description | An optional description for the license order. |
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You can change the settings for an existing license order by clicking the Edit icon in the Action column for the license order you want to change.
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You can view the history for a license order by clicking the More icon under the Action column for the desired license order, and selecting History from the list of actions.
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