Entitlement Management Enhancements in 2024.01
The following enhancements to entitlement management were added in the 2024.01 release:
| • | Feature Bundle Changes Updated to Cloud Licensing Service Instance |
| • | Ability to Edit Custom Attributes |
| • | New Option to Control Inclusion of Entitlement Certificate in Emails |
Feature Bundle Changes Updated to Cloud Licensing Service Instance
A new configuration option Allow feature bundle changes to be published to a License Server has been added, which enables publishers to control whether changes to feature bundles are reflected on the relevant instance of the FlexNet Cloud Licensing Service.
The configuration option is located under System > Configure > FlexNet Operations > Embedded Device Settings. By default, the option is unselected, that is, feature bundle changes are not automatically fed through to the Cloud Licensing Service instance.
Feature bundle changes are updated to the Cloud Licensing Service instance whenever one of the following events happen through the UI or via a SOAP request:
| • | A feature is added to the feature bundle |
| • | A feature is removed from the feature bundle |
| • | The quantity of one or more features in a bundle changes. |
Ability to Edit Custom Attributes
Users can now edit custom attributes. Specifically, users can add and remove values for text types Single select and Multi-valued text.
Note:In the 2024.01 release, this enhancement does not apply to custom attributes of type File and Download Package. For these custom attributes, the enhancement was implement in the 2024.05 release (see Editing Custom Attributes of Certain Types).
In addition, the behavior that occurs after creating a custom attribute has now been made consistent with that of similar pages. After the user clicks Save on the Create Custom Attribute page, the user stays on the Create Custom Attribute page, and a suitable message is displayed (for example, confirming that the custom attribute was successfully added). Previously, clicking Save returned the user to the Custom Attributes page (which shows a list of all custom attributes). Now, to leave the page and to return to the Custom Attributes page, the user clicks Cancel.
New Option to Control Inclusion of Entitlement Certificate in Emails
A new option for the email template type Entitlement has been introduced which allows producers to selectively include or exclude an entitlement certificate when sending out an entitlement email to customers.
The new option, called Attach Entitlement Certificate, is located on the Edit Email Template Definition page (available when clicking a template ID under Administer > Templates and selecting Edit > Edit Definition on the View Email Template page).
Producers who want to use the new option Attach Entitlement Certificate must ensure that the system configuration setting Always Attach Entitlement Certificate in Email be unselected (under System > Configure > FlexNet Operations > General Options). This is because the system configuration setting takes precedence. If it is selected, the option Attach Entitlement Certificate is ignored.
For each template of type Entitlement, producers can set the option Attach Entitlement Certificate to Yes or No:
| • | Yes: An Entitlement Certificate will be attached to emails that are based on the Entitlement template. |
| • | No: No Entitlement Certificate will be attached to emails that are based on the Entitlement template. |
By default, Attach Entitlement Certificate is set to No.
In addition, when creating an entitlement, producers need to select the relevant Entitlement email template or select DEFAULT for the Email Template Variation field (on the Entitle Customers To Licenses page). This behavior was tracked as a known issue in 2023.01, but has since been resolved (see No Additional Step Required for Selectively Including Entitlement Certificate in Emails).