AltiumLive Dashboard - Glossary

Account

The Account is each Organization's record of details in Altium's database. Account details that can be accessed via the AltiumLive Dashboard include:

• Profile - including Company details such as address, phone number, website, and customer reference number. Enhance the Organization's public profile further with a description about the Company, and an uploaded Company Logo.
• Contacts - details of each employee (User) with access to Altium’s software.
• Licenses - details of each software License purchased by the organization, and who it is currently assigned to.
• Groups - license allocation groups defined by the user.
• Vaults - a listing of all Satellite Vaults currently registered as being used within the Organization.

Activation

This is the process that notifies Altium that the License is now in use. For a Time-based license this also commences the time period. An Altium License File (ALF) is created as part of the Activation process, which is then used to enable the Altium software. If Activation is being performed for a Standalone or Private Server License the ALF file is downloaded to the default download location defined for the browser being used for Activation. The user must then perform the standard licensing process from within Altium Designer to complete the activation process for these 2 license types. Activation of other License types is automatic, no further user intervention is required to complete the Activation process.

Activation Code

The code issued by Altium that is used to activate the software.

Contact

Also referred to as the Notification Contact, the User that is nominated to receive (email and mail) notifications from Altium about software, content and services, and other matters related to the provision of Altium’s software, content and services. The Contact is defined when the software License is purchased.

Group

A collection of Users, created by a Group Administrator. Groups are created to help manage license assignments and usage across the company. You would typically group Users by company department – for example, a certain design team could be one Group. Users are assigned to a Group and then that Group is assigned Licenses, which are only available to members of that group.

Group Administrators

Dashboard Account administration tasks can only be performed by a Group Administrator. For each Account a Group Administrator is defined when the Account is first created. A current Group Administrator can also promote another User to also be a Group Administrator.

License

The Software License is the entity that a customer purchases from Altium. The License gives them the right to use the Altium software specified by that License, under the terms defined in the End User License Agreement (EULA). A License is purchased for a specific number of seats of Altium software, the number of seats (number of PCs that can run the software simultaneously) is shown in the Licenses page of the Dashboard.

License Type

The license Type defines how the License is currently configured to be enabled.

• On-Demand - In this mode a license is requested when Altium Designer is started on a given PC, the license is then held while Altium Designer is open, then released when Altium Designer is closed on that PC. That license is then available to other installations of Altium Designer. To run in this mode the PC must have internet access to one of Altium’s Account Management Servers.
• Standalone - a Standalone License Type licenses the Altium software on a specific PC. Continuous connectivity to an Altium Account Management Server is not required for this license Type, as the license activation file (*.ALF) is retained on the PC.
• Private Server - for this license Type an Altium License Server is installed on the User’s network, which then serves licenses in an on-demand mode, to instances of Altium software running on the User’s network.

Member

When a User is added to a Group, they are referred to as a Member. A User can be a Member of more than one Group.

Perpetual

A software License that has no expiration date.

Seat

The individual installation of Altium software running on a PC. The number of Seats associated with a software License is determined when the License is purchased. Each Seat must have access to a valid License to function correctly, and to be legally licensed for Usage.

Serial Number

A unique Serial Number is used to identify each Altium software License.

Subscription

Subscription gives the User access to both software releases and updates and new content and services, released during the Subscription time period.

Time-based

A software License that continues to operate while the User has valid Software Subscription. When the Software Subscription expires the software License will cease to operate.

User

An individual that is registered in your Altium Account as a user of Altium’s software and AltiumLive content and services. Users can have one or more Altium Software Licenses allocated.

Usage

Defines the scope of how a License can legally be used; including:

• Commercial - the software can be used to generate income in a professional development environment.
• Commercial Trial - the software can be used to generate income in a professional development environment, but only for the period of time specified as the Trial period.
• Educational - the software can only be used for educational purposes in an approved education institution, for non-commerical designs.
• Internal Altium Use - the software can only be used by a current Altium employee, for Altium-related design work.