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Configure available product editions

As a network-licensing administrator, you can configure what product editions are available to a client user when they try to connect to the license server.

Generate and edit the network license configuration file

Procedure

  1. On the client machine, go to the page used for choosing a product edition from the Product Activation window.
  2. Click the CTRL + F12 key combination to create a network license configuration file.
  3. Go to the location of the network license configuration file (for SDL Trados Studio this is C:\ProgramData\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio5\Data) and open the file using your preferred text editor (for SDL Trados Studio the file name is StudioCommuter.lic). This is an example for the XML file structure (if you need the actual generated file, you can find instructions on how to obtain it in Generate and edit the network license configuration file):
    <LicenseDefinition>
    	<LicenseEdition>
    		<Name>ProductEdition</Name>
    			<IsCurrent>true</IsCurrent>
    			<Features>
    				<Feature>
    					<Name>FeatureName</Name>
    					<IsDefault>true</IsDefault>
    				</Feature>
    		</Features>
    	</LicenseEdition>
    </LicenseDefinition>
  4. Edit the XML file structure to configure what editions can the client user choose from when they activate their product and what features are available to them.
    • If you want to add or remove a product edition, edit the file to include or exclude the <LicenseEdition> tags and their content for the specific product edition.

    • If you want to add or remove a product feature, edit the file to include or exclude the <Feature> tags and their content for the specific product feature. Changing the value of the <IsDefault> tag to true or false determines which product feature is currently available for the product edition.

  5. After any change you make to the XML file, you have to go to Help > Product Activation > , click Change license server and connect to the network license server again.

Reset the network license configuration file to default

About this task

You might want to re-generate the network license configuration file if it gets corrupted or you want the default settings in place.

Procedure

  1. On the client machine, go to the page used for choosing a product edition from the Product Activation window.
  2. Click the CTRL + F12 key combination to re-create the default network license configuration file.