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    Grant a PW SES License?

    jcallicott
    Offline jcallicott 11 months ago

    Greetings,


    I have a hypothetical that may or may nor remain so. I'm looking for information as to how best to grant use of PW to a user, as we have an external user we may need to grant a PW license to. 

    Back before the advent of SES licensing, we could specify in the “Administrative” settings for a user where they received their license from. Either the connected integration server, or the client’s integration server. This granted a PW Passport license that could be used with PW Explorer (Visas did not exist at the time, so it was much less expensive to do). The licenses for MicroStation or toher design software were unaffected. 

    These days, for an IMS account using an SES license, the license would be granted by creating a user account on our Bentley portal that the user could log into. In this case, we would set the user up to use a PW VIsa license as they need to be using CADD data. But assuming we did that, how would the user be able to bring their own MicroStation or ORD license to be used? They can only be logged into CC under one set of credentials, and if they login to CONNECTION Client using the account we give them, we would extend PW Explorer usage only - we would not want to grant them licenses for the design software. is this possible?

    Can anyone shine a bit of light on this? 

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    • MHarris
      0 MHarris Fri, Sep 30 2022 1:55 PM

      We have an external Active Directory that our external users are created in.  Each external user creates an account (username, password, their email) which is pulled into a ProjectWise group.  This gives them read only access to top level folders.  Individual company groups can then be added per project as needed.  The external user uses their email to log in to CC and their license is utilized, not ours. 

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    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Offline Kevin van Haaren Fri, Sep 30 2022 8:00 PM

      This is a bit of an ugly situation that is supposed to be resolved in an upcoming release (hopefully the next one, and hopefully soon).

      Currently what you can do:

      • Create an Entitlement Group in your User Management
      • Assign ONLY ProjectWise Explorer Client entitlement to this group
      • Put the accounts you create for these users in this group

      This is where it gets ugly for the users, in order to ensure they have a MicroStation/ORD license from their own company they should:

      • Login to Connection Client with their company's credentials
      • Open MicroStation/ORD and any other products they may need.
      • Go to the File menu > Tools > License Management
      • Verify the application is Activated
      • Go to Tools > Send Logs Now
      • Close all the apps.

      Login to Connection Client with credentials from your ProjectWise. Open ProjectWise and begin working.

      What happens here is MicroStation/ORD will use the activation from being logged into their corporate accounts for about 7 days while they connect to your projectwise. They can change their login back to their company account open Microstation/ORD again and the activation will renew.

      When our users have to do this with other companies we recommend they just make it a habit on Monday's to always renew their activations.

      They can also (if allowed by their company) check out a license from their company's license server before logging into ProjectWise. However this puts the license into use 24/7 and kills the advantage of license pooling. How expensive that would be for your company I'm not sure.  We typically only allow checkouts for about 7 days to cover people in the field so there isn't really an advantage to our users to do check-outs.

       

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    • Phil Conard
      0 Offline Phil Conard Wed, Oct 5 2022 2:29 AM

      Another option is purchasing a license from Virtuosity

      virtuosity.bentley.com/.../



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    • jcallicott
      0 Offline jcallicott Tue, Oct 11 2022 12:14 PM in reply to Phil Conard

      Phil, my understanding is that Virtuosity is set up for small companies to obtain such licenses? The cost appears to build in some support/training?

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    • jcallicott
      0 Offline jcallicott Tue, Oct 11 2022 12:17 PM in reply to Kevin van Haaren

      Kevin, thanks for your reply. I'm assuming it's key that the entitlement management we would set up for such users would use the exact same email address they're putting into CC, correct? That way, it would be possible through CC that their email is used to grant a PW license from one org (say, a company they don't work for) and license for MicroStation, et al from their own license pool. Am I understanding correctly?

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