User Experience Enhancements in 2025.01
The following user experience enhancement was added in the 2025.01 release.
New Configuration Hides Menu Options for Making Entities Obsolete
(Case 02902521, SWM-22852)
In FlexNet Operations, the status "Obsolete" is typically used to remove entities (for example, products, features, feature bundles, devices, suites, and license models) from use permanently. This status helps distinguish outdated or superseded entities from those currently in use, without completely deleting them from the system.
However, producers need to use great care when setting an entity’s status to Obsolete, because the status Obsolete is permanent and cannot be reverted. The 2025.01 release therefore introduces the configuration option Allow state change of entities to obsolete (under System > Configure > FlexNet Operations > General Options), which enables producers to hide the Obsolete or Make Obsolete menu options in the Producer Portal. Specifically, when the option is unselected, the Obsolete or Make Obsolete menu options are no longer displayed in the following locations in the Producer Portal:
| • | Entitlements > List Entitlements By Order > Change State menu |
| • | Entitlements > Create > Line Items and Maintenance Line Items tabs > Change State menu |
| • | Devices > Devices > clicking the hyperlinked device name opens the Device or View Server page > Edit menu |
| • | Products > Products > Change State menu |
| • | Products > Features > Change State menu |
| • | Products > Feature Bundles > Change State menu |
| • | Products > Suites > Change State menu |
| • | Administer > License Models > Change State menu |
Unselecting Allow state change of entities to obsolete prevents users from—accidentally or intentionally—changing the state of products, features, feature bundles, devices, suites, license models, and similar entities, to Obsolete using the user interface. However, entities can still have their status changed to Obsolete using an API web service call.
By default, Allow state change of entities to obsolete is selected.
Note:Operations that involve changing an entity’s state to Obsolete as part of a transfer or upgrade process are not impacted.