Setting the license and license features for a group

As an administrator, you assign licenses to groups so that members of that group, and members of that group's subgroups, have access to the features contained in the license. You can also switch on or off each individual license feature.

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Before you begin

An administrator has designed the group hierarchy for your Spotfire environment.
The client packages for your version of Spotfire have been deployed to Spotfire Server. For instructions, see Deploying client packages to Spotfire Server.

Setting the license for a group

To set the license for a group in your Spotfire environment, use the Groups page on the Spotfire Server web administration pages.

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Procedure

Log in to the Spotfire Server web administration pages and click Groups.
On the Groups page, double-click the group that you want to edit.

Tip: If you have a long list of groups, use the search field.
Click License and features.
From the Select license drop-down menu, select the license for the group.
When you are done, click Save.

Switching on and off access to specific features

You can switch on or off a group's access to certain features and functionality by selecting the license features for the group.

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Note: To learn about each license feature, see License feature reference.

Procedure

Log in to the Spotfire Server web administration pages and click Groups.
On the Groups page, double-click the group that you want to edit.

Tip: If you have a long list of groups, use the search field.
Click License and features.
On the License and features tab, in the Features list, select the license features you want the group to have access to.

Note: When you select features for a group, you can only see and select license features that are available for the group's selected product license. For example, you cannot select a license feature that requires the Spotfire Analytics license for a group that only has the Spotfire Application User product license.
If your group is a member of other groups, you can see what license features are inherited, and the Set for group column shows what group a license feature is inherited from. You cannot turn off access to an inherited feature.
When you are done, click Save.

Setting licenses with CLI commands

You can set and edit the license features of a group using a command-line interface.

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When you use CLI commands to manage the license features of a group, you can set or remove individual license features or groups of license features. For more information, see set-license, remove-license, and list-licenses.

Procedure

On the computer running Spotfire Server, open a command-line interface in the directory that contains the file config.bat (config.sh on Linux).

With the set-license command, add a license feature or group of license features to a group.

Example

config set-license -g="GroupName" -l="Spotfire.Dxp.Professional"

Tip: You cannot set the product license for a group directly with the set-license command. Instead, you can set the groups of license features. The following are the required and optional groups of license features for each product license:

Data science

Required
Spotfire.Dxp.DataScience, Spotfire.Dxp.Metrics, Spotfire.Dxp.Professional, Spotfire.Dxp.WebAnalyzer, 
Spotfire.Dxp.WebPlayer, Spotfire.Dxp.EnterprisePlayer, Spotfire.Dxp.View 

Optional
Spotfire.Dxp.Connectors, Spotfire.Dxp.Diagnostics, Spotfire.Dxp.Extensions, 
Spotfire.Dxp.InformationModeler

Analytics or Analyst

Required
Spotfire.Dxp.Metrics, Spotfire.Dxp.Professional, Spotfire.Dxp.WebAnalyzer, 
Spotfire.Dxp.WebPlayer, Spotfire.Dxp.EnterprisePlayer, Spotfire.Dxp.View 

Optional
Spotfire.Dxp.Connectors, Spotfire.Dxp.Diagnostics, Spotfire.Dxp.Extensions, 
Spotfire.Dxp.InformationModeler

Business Author

Required
Spotfire.Dxp.WebAnalyzer, Spotfire.Dxp.WebPlayer, 
Spotfire.Dxp.EnterprisePlayer, Spotfire.Dxp.View 

Optional
Spotfire.Dxp.Connectors, Spotfire.Dxp.Diagnostics, Spotfire.Dxp.Extensions, 
Spotfire.Dxp.InformationModeler

Analysis Consumer or Consumer

Required
Spotfire.Dxp.WebPlayer, Spotfire.Dxp.EnterprisePlayer, Spotfire.Dxp.View 

Optional
Spotfire.Dxp.Diagnostics, Spotfire.Dxp.Extensions

Analysis Viewer

Required
Spotfire.Dxp.View