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More User Licenses for the VAR Kit

asked on April 8, 2014

It is wonderful to have a range of great products like Forms, Workflow, Import Agent, Distributed Processing, and multiple demo databases, but the limit of five users in the VAR kit has become more than cumbersome.

 

We are forever swapping named users in and out, just so we can show different demos to different people.  Of course, then all the security set ups and groups change, and every time you have to change something, you also run the risk of breaking something, or something not working at the worst possible moment.

 

Note that we appreciate the Demo Database, and often use that to start.  However, people want to see their stuff in action.  So the Demo Database is not the answer to every situation.

 

The question then is, how about increasing the number of named users to maybe 20, so we can maintain some of our own items on a permanent basis?

 

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replied on April 8, 2014

I usually try to make the VM I have it installed on a Named device, as well as my local machine. This helps quite a bit since I don't have to assign licenses to any account when on those two machines, which is where I do the majority of connecting to it.  

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replied on April 8, 2014

Setting your Demo PC as a Named device is the LF recommended method of handling the named license assignment.  They normally say to assign a license to the device and to your administrative user(s).

 

This would then allow your administrative users up to 4 concurrent connections each and leaves you with 8 concurrent connections for all other users to share.

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replied on April 8, 2014

Yep--giving the machine a Named Device license solves just about everything. The exception to this rule is the licensing for Forms. Forms doesn't see Named Device licenses, so each Forms user will need a Named User license.

 

We build most of our Forms demos around one user (who may be assigned multiple tasks, or represent multiple people), which helps reduce the amount of logging in and out we need to do. It also keeps the number of required licenses very low. 

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replied on April 8, 2014

Thanks for the feedback! I'm looking into possible updates to the current Kit definitions right now so that workarounds like those mentioned above don't need to basically become requirements of running demos. We're still working our way through different possibilities, but we are definitely aware of the current concerns with the provided number of users and I'm hoping to address that.

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replied on April 10, 2014

Just a suggestion:

 

Maybe you could have a "demo mode" that could be turned on that essentially doesn't check for licenses for a limited amount of time, say 2 hours. Then you have to restart your services completely afterwards to reset it (to make sure people don't abuse it!).

 

I could see this coming in handy for demo's where the all of the customers are going to connect to web access from their own laptops. 

 

It would also be good for use in a user level training class that could be put on by a VAR

 

 

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replied on April 9, 2014

We could use additional licenses as well.

Also, the ability to test restricted user licenses through the VAR kit.

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replied on April 10, 2014

Great feedback, but as Justin said, these are excellent workarounds for a problem that can be solved easily via other means.  In our case, we use SSD Drives which generate a speedy and crisp demo, but do not have as much space as HDDs.  That knocks VM's out of the running.  Also, for approvals and security, we like to show the different users all logged in at the same time, so items can flow from one to another in a way that is close to what the real users would see.  We don't like to do a lot of task switching, as we generally have enough to be thinking about.  So, Justin, upping that limit will be very nice - do we need to send anyone chocolate or other goodies to make that happen?

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replied on April 10, 2014

Do you bring multiple laptops in to do this or do you have the customers bring their own devices to your demos? 

 

If you bring your own laptops with you to do all of this you can bring a small pocket wireless router with you and have your own network. Then each of the laptops can be a "named device".

 

So, one machine with Laserfiche server and is a named device, 2 demo machines with named devices, one forms user, one "extra" you can let the ipad use. Plus two admin level connection freebies. 

 

 

 

 

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