Products Screen - Managing License Aliases

License Aliases are stored in the products storage and can be maintained via the "Products Screen" - "Edit | License Aliases" menu item.


Manage License Aliases Dialog

This dialog allows for management of License Aliases. It provides the grid that shows the list of existing License Aliases where each License Alias occupies one row and some of its attributes are shows as columns.

The "New" button allows creation of new License Alias with help of the "New License Alias" dialog.

The "Edit" button allows changing attributes of currently selected License Alias with help of the "Edit License Alias" dialog.

The "Delete" button provides the ability to delete the currently selected License Alias.

The "Up"/"Down" buttons allow rearranging License Aliases in the list.


Edit License Alias Dialog

This dialog allows specifying attributes of License Alias and consists of two tabs: "General" and "Override".


General Tab

The "General" Tab provides the ability to specify the following License Alias attributes:


Override Tab

The "Override" page indicates setting of the additional parameters for the License Alias. When the license is created based on the License Alias then several license properties could be overridden at the time of the license creation. For example: when the license is created via Control Center's New License functionality, then the default expiration period for the evaluation license is calculated based on the value previously set in the "Edit Product Dialog | License section | Evaluation Period" value. However, a developer might desire to override this behavior for a specific License Alias. In such case the developer would raise an "Override" check in the "Date Expiration Period" property and would set up a new "Date Expiration Period" for the given license Alias.


Edit License Dialog

Setting up License attributes for the given License Alias is achieved via the "License" button of the "New/Edit License Alias" dialog. A dialog similar to the Control Center's License screen allows developers to pre-configure all of the necessary license attributes. These attributes would be used in conjunction with the New/Edit License Alias's dialog Override Page to create new licenses based on the given License Alias.

All standard license parameters like "Product"; "Edition"; "License Type", including parameters like "Features"; "Custom Properties" and "Custom EULA" - all could be pre-configured for a specific License Alias. This ensures that no parameter could be either missed or badly entered when the license is created via the License Alias.

Such functionality could be extremely invaluable when Protection! Sales Edition is used by the sales staff. In the majority of cases the developer would pre-configure Product and the Products' License Aliases and the sales staff would use these pre-configured License Aliases to generate certain licenses.

When License Aliases are fully configured and saved their names would appear in the "Shortcuts" page of the Control Center's Shortcuts Side Bar. Note: In order to see updated License Aliases in the Shortcuts Tab the product storage must be saved first.