This page guides you through the process of Floating License Sharing through the My Chaos portal.
Administrator Workflow
The Administrator can share the floating licenses with all users within their Organization. Any user added to the Organization can use shared licenses by installing the Chaos product with all default settings and signing in to the product with their own Chaos Account.
Any active commercial Chaos Account is, by default, an Organization, and the account owner is an Administrator.
Administrators can add other users to their Organization and share floating licenses with them.
Go to the three-dot menu next to Users and select Invite Users.
Invite users to your Organization. For instructions on this step, see the My Chaos Guide page.
To enable Floating license sharing, open the three-dot menu next to the option and click Enable Floating license sharing.
Floating Licenses can be shared within an Organization only when they are assigned to the Administrator.
If you have assigned floating licenses to users in your Organization, you will need to revoke them if you want those licenses to be part of the shared pool.
At this point, any user within the Organization can use a shared floating license.
Named licenses are not affected when Floating License Sharing is enabled. Instead, such licenses are assigned individually.
Notes
- Floating License Sharing only works with Floating licenses. Named licenses can be individually assigned, but cannot be part of a shared floating pool.
- Only the Administrator's licenses are shared with the Organization. Individually assigned floating licenses are not part of the shared pool, unless the assignments are revoked.
- Only licenses owned by the Organization can be shared. Licenses assigned to the Administrator from another Organization where the Administrator is a User are not part of the shared pool.
- Only Administrators can enable or disable Floating License Sharing for the Organization.
A cloud-based floating license cannot be borrowed for offline use by a User. The License needs to be personally assigned to that user, to allow them to borrow the license. For more information, on how an Administrator can assign a product license to a user, see the Managing Users and Licenses page.
- Shared licenses can be engaged by Organization users, but they will not appear in the users' list of licenses.
- Enscape users: The cloud-based floating license setup described here is for Enscape 4.1 or later. If you're already using shared floating licenses with a license key in Enscape 4.0 or older, you can use a similar setup by adding users to your Organization. Users can then sign in with their accounts to the product and use the shared floating licenses, or complete an account if they don't have one.