License management

On any mSupply server, you purchase concurrent user licenses. These licenses sit in a single pool, to be used by all users who login to that server.

Sometimes, it can be helpful to split this single pool up into multiple smaller pools. This would be the case when, for example, different organisations use the same server and buy licenses separately for use by their organisations. It is then important that one organisation does not start to use the other's licenses.

To help manage this kind of situation, mSupply has the concept of user license categories. Each of these categories has a maximum allowed number of users logged in at the same time. Each time a user logs in, mSupply checks whether they belong to a license category and, if so, whether there is already the maximum number of users for that category logged in. If so, then the user is shown a warning message and not allowed to login, otherwise they are logged in as usual.

User license categories only apply to an mSupply server so you won't be able to set them on a single user copy of mSupply (including single user satellite copy in a sync system). There's no point since only a single user can log in at a time to these versions of mSupply!

Creating user license categories

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