Hi,
If you are a SELECT subscriber. If you install the new pond pack CONNECT, which configuration should you select as the default configuration knowing that you are a SELECT subscriber?
Hello,
If you are seeing all possible feature levels of PondPack listed in the Municipal License Administrator, most likely your organization has a SELECT OpenAccess or ELS license. This means that all Bentley products (and all feature levels of Haestad products) are available to use, and you will be billed based on usage.
If you own a perpetual license of PondPack, contact your Site Administrator to confirm which feature level is owned, which you would then select in the Municipal License Administrator. Send me a private message with your Site ID seen under Help > About and I can confirm for you if needed.
If you do not own any licenses of PondPack, then usage of any of the feature levels will incur a term license based on that usage. If you only want to trial PondPack, choose not to set the feature level and the program will run in trial mode (with a maximum of one pond) for seven days. Or, contact your sales representative for a formal trial license.
You can read more about this subject in the following article in our Wiki: Setting the correct feature level in the Municipal License Administrator
Note that we will soon have a major update to our licensing, which will make things much more clear to the user on which feature levels are owned (perpetual license) vs. available through an OpenAccess subscription. In the meantime, your Site Administrator can limit the feature levels exposed to end users by setting up Custom Activation Groups. See this article: Using Custom Activation Groups to prevent unintended usage
Regards,
Jesse DringoliTechnical Support Manager, OpenFlowsBentley Communities Site AdministratorBentley Systems, Inc.
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We don’t have a perpetual license of pond pack and I know we have SELECT Open Access. I got mislead by the phrase “for Free” mentioned in the blog announcement as I thought this will not incur cost contrary to all other software that we don’t have perpetual license for but can try. I now guess what you mean by “for Free” in the announcement is that even if the select subscriber has not paid a SELECT subscription amount associated with his pond pack license but owns a perpetual license ...
anyways, thanks for clarifying... will uninstall on Sunday from my machine.
Can you point me to the blog post that mentions "for free", in case it needs to be edited?
Are you referring to the release announcement I posted here? - "This release is available at no cost for SELECT and ELS subscribers"
To clarify, the ability to upgrade (download new versions) is the part that is free / no additional cost for SELECT and ELS subscribers. The article was written for existing PondPack and FlowMaster users on an older version. I have reworded the post to be more clear.
Note that PondPack is no different than other Bentley software available under SELECT OpenAccess - if a perpetual license is not owned, usage is subject to a term license (quarterly or monthly depending on your subscription)
Starting with our next releases, things will be much more clear to the end user. Apologies for the confusion.
Yes that one... it was “at no cost release for SELECT”... it confused me and led me to believe that this was something different than other software... no worries we have Civil Storm perpetual license so we are covered ...
Understood. Yes, CivilStorm can essentially do everything PondPack can, though PondPack can be very useful for quicker/simpler pond design (vs. larger and more comprehensive networks in CivilStorm).