Entitlement Management Issues Resolved in 2024.09
The following issues were resolved for entitlement management in the 2024.09 release:
| • | Start Date No Longer Changes When FlexNet Publisher Licenses Are Rehosted |
| • | New Configuration to Limit Device Search to Device Owner |
| • | Automatic Renewal No Longer Causing Spurious Error Message |
| • | Resolved End-User Portal Login Issue |
| • | Bulk Upgrade Jobs With Auto-Fulfill No Longer Failing |
| • | Resolved Issue With License Model Status Changes |
Start Date No Longer Changes When FlexNet Publisher Licenses Are Rehosted
When rehosting duration-based FlexNet Publisher licenses with the start date option Use Each Activation Date, the start date no longer resets to the date when the rehost operation occurs. Equally, the licenses’ end date remains unchanged when they are rehosted.
New Configuration to Limit Device Search to Device Owner
Previously, a search for devices by device owner (account ID or account name) would also return devices that were not owned by the account specified in the search, if the device had add-on license entitlements mapped from the account specified in the search.
This release introduces a configuration called Limit device search by device owner (under System > Configure > FlexNet Operations > Embedded Device Settings), which allows producers to restrict search results only to devices owned by the account specified in the search.
By default, the option is unselected (preserving the previous behavior, whereby search results can also include devices that are not owned by the account specified in the search but have add-on license entitlements mapped from the account specified in the search).
The configuration option controls the behavior for device searches in the Producer Portal, End-User Portal, and using the ManageDeviceService web service.
Automatic Renewal No Longer Causing Spurious Error Message
If a line item is configured to automatically renew, and the Auto Renew option is later deactivated, FlexNet Operations no longer erroneously displays an error when changing the expiration date in the Change Start/Expiration Date dialog to a new date that would be later than the original renewal expiration date.
Resolved End-User Portal Login Issue
Previously, users could log in to the End-User Portal using an activation ID from an inactive or obsolete entitlement. This issue no longer occurs, and users can no longer access the portal with such IDs.
Bulk Upgrade Jobs With Auto-Fulfill No Longer Failing
Bulk upgrade jobs that have auto-fulfill set to Yes no longer fail.
Resolved Issue With License Model Status Changes
An enhancement planned for the 2024.08 release enabled producers to make custom license attributes inactive. However, when license model custom attributes were exported as a JAR file and imported into FlexNet Operations, the attribute status was erroneously changed to Inactive. The implementation was deactivated soon after, and this issue has been fixed in 2024.09.