Improve and automate licence management as follows:

1. Request for licence should be consistent
2. DEMO licence should be issued for all new setup
3. Link Staff should be able to see license issued by client and update license records easily
4. Licence should allow for major version
5. Licence check should exclude SQL server license counts\

Perform UAT on:

1. Licence acquisition for DEMO
2. Licence parameter changes and Request
3. Licence renewal
4. Licence Cancellation
5. Review current license
6. Verify user count is enforced
7. Verify Employee count is enforced

The following changes have been made:

1. Added a new license VERSION 4 in the licensing system
2. Added license modules as follows: 
   1. REPL
   2. POS
   3. LTT
   4. HRM
   5. TNA
   6. ESS
   7. PAY
   8. VMS
   9. REC
3. Licences can be requested/retrieved from any web application using menu "Global ~> Licence"
4. Licence Issue Rules:
   1. If a license is requested for the first time, a demo license will be issued automatically
   2. Demo license validity is 60 days, single user with 100 employees
   3. Link Staff can update license parameters using Licence Version 4 on the Licencing system. The client then needs to Retrieve Licence using the "Global~> Licence" system
5. Licence will change on Major Version Change
6. Backoffice license check:
   1. User Count happens when logging into Backoffice
   2. Backoffice Licence Validity is checked when Backoffice forms are loaded
   3. Users will see all modules, however, access restriction will be applied when forms are loaded
7. The following modules use concurrent user count: POS, Backoffice, Reporter
8. The following modules use Active Named user count: All web applications
9. The following modules use Active Employee count: HRM and PAY
10. Link Reporter checks for Concurrent license count from Back-office, POS, and Reporter by Machine name.

Important Notes:

1. All clients using version 9 and above will be affected by this license system
2. New major versions will require a license update.
3. Internet connection is required to access license. Manual license updates are not permitted
4. While in UAT, licenses will be issued from Https://www.link247.com.au/DEV-Licence. Username: admin  password (standard password)
5. When in production, licenses will be issued from Https://www.link247.com.au/Licence

Hi Rashna, please get Vineet or Sanjeet to perform UAT on:

1. Licence acquisition for DEMO
2. Licence parameter changes and Request
3. Licence renewal
4. Licence Cancellation
5. Review current license
6. Verify user count is enforced
7. Verify Employee count is enforced

Test with a Demo Database.
Database -LINKSOFTCASE9115 on QA1

Hi Sanjay,

Please add messages when the request fails when no internet connectivity and message to show when "Your Company Name" is sent in the request.

regards
Alvis

The following changes have been made in BETA5

1. TNA - THis validates the number of employees with the TNA Mapping table
2. REPL - This validates the number of users with the Active server connections
3. LTT - Audit - validates the users

Below test has been completed.

Hi Sanjay, 

This has been tested as per comment 11.

Documentation on the case has been completed

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