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Altium NEXUS's On-Demand licensing offers you global floating license capability - within the geographic scope of your license and the conditions set out in the EULA - without the need to implement your own dedicated server. The system provides a flexible, streamlined approach to licensing, allowing you to obtain a license in a matter of mouse clicks, when and where you want it - the true essence of an on-demand system.
To further increase its flexibility, an On-Demand license can be used in two different ways, or 'modes' - On-Demand or Roaming. The choice of how you use your On-Demand license will come down to personal preference, and the way in which you work.
Before you can access and use an On-Demand license, you must first sign-in to your Altium account through the secure Altium portal - remember, On-Demand licensing is administered by an Altium managed server. For convenience, controls for account access are presented at the top of the License Management view (accessed by clicking on the control at the top-right of the workspace and choosing the Licenses command from the menu). Click the Sign in link to access the Sign In dialog. Use this dialog to enter your AltiumLive Account Credentials and click OK.
On-Demand licensing requires you to be signed in to your Altium account.
The Connection, Sign in and portal Server details are all available on the System - Account Management page of the Preferences dialog. This page can be quickly accessed by clicking the Account Preferences link in the License Management view. Alternatively, access the Preferences dialog (click on the control at the top-right of the workspace) and browse to the page within the System folder.
Once signed in, the Available Licenses region of the page will automatically present the specific licenses - On-Demand and Standalone - available to you for use.
In the example image below, On-Demand licenses are listed, available for the currently signed-in user.
Only those licenses that are available to you will be listed in the Available Licenses region.
For each On-Demand license, the following information is presented:
In Use
and Roaming
respectively.With flexibility in mind, On-Demand licensing has been defined to operate in two distinct modes, detailed in the following sections.
This is the simplest (and quickest) mode of use for an On-Demand license - the perceived default mode if you will. In this mode, a seat of an On-Demand license is acquired by any client computer, only while you are signed in to your account. When you sign out, the seat is released so that another user can acquire it.
To use a seat of an available On-Demand license in this mode, simply click on the license in the grid, then click on the Use link in the area below the grid, as shown below.
Select the required license and click Use.
With a license in use, the following changes will occur:
Used by me
.Available Licenses - Unlicensed
to Available Licenses - Licensed to <AccountName>. License subscription valid to <SubscriptionExpiryDate>.
- reflecting the account to which the license is associated, and the expiry of the current subscription associated to, and purchased for, that license.
The Available Licenses region will update to reflect your use of a seat of the selected license in On-Demand mode.
In this mode, a seat of an On-Demand license is acquired for a specified time. You do not need to remain signed-in to your account to use the license in this mode - you can sign out and work offline, in essence roaming freely with your license seat.
To use a seat of an available On-Demand license in this mode, simply click on the license in the grid, then click on the Roam link, in the area below the grid. The Retain License dialog will appear in which you can define how many days and/or hours you wish to roam with the seat.
Roaming offers the freedom to essentially 'lock' down a seat for your use only - you can sign out and work offline and the seat remains yours for the time
you specify.
With a license in use, the following changes will occur:
Roaming with me
.Available Licenses - Unlicensed
to Available Licenses - Licensed to <AccountName>. License subscription valid to <SubscriptionExpiryDate>.
- reflecting the account to which the license is associated, and the expiry of the current subscription associated to, and purchased for, that license.
The Available Licenses region will update to reflect your use of a seat of the selected license in Roaming mode. The Expiry column indicates when roaming
time will expire.
Of the two On-Demand licensing modes, it is the Roaming mode that enables you to take the license and work offline. When you sign out, the grid in the Available Licenses region of the License Management page will change from showing the available On-Demand
licenses, to showing the On-Demand - Offline
license that you are currently using (roaming with). You will not see any Assigned Seat Count information while working offline, nor will you see any expanded grid details showing other users (for seats taken from a multi-seat license).
A license seat taken in Roaming mode will show as an On-Demand - Offline license when you are signed out from your Altium account.
It is possible to force-release a seat on a license that is being used in either On-Demand or Roaming modes. For example, if you forget to release your seat at work when you leave for the day, you can release it from your home computer then use the open seat at home. The extent of your 'release powers' depends on whether or not you have administrative rights to your licenses:
To release a license:
You can force-release a seat of your license that is roaming on another computer, provided you promise that the seat will no longer be used, under the
Altium Honor Code.
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