Named-User Licensing

Some sites have named-user licensing, rather than concurrent-user licensing. With named-user licensing, you purchase the ARCHIBUS software with a specific list of names of authorized users. The business partner selling the ARCHIBUS software enters the list of authorized names into the ARCHIBUS Users table and sets the sign-in information to allow only one user per name.

Each of these specified users individually signs in under the appropriate name, and other users cannot use this same name; for example, the entire Accounting department cannot sign in under the same name. Typically, sites with named-user licensing do not use the GUEST account.

To establish this type of licensing, you must alter the passwordPolicy bean in \web-inf\config\security\afm_users\useraccount.xml to:

useNamedUserLicensing="true"

When the user signs in, the program checks to see if there already is a user account in memory with this user name (e.g. ABERNATHY). If so, the program:

Stops that user's server-side session.
Deletes the user account object.
Signs in the user per normal (creating a new user account object and session).

This approach:

Keeps multiple users from sharing the same account. (If they do so, one user's session will end when the next user signs in.)
Keeps users from getting locked out if they close the browser without signing out (thus keeping their server-side session running until it times out).

This approach is also useful for sites that have a small number of users and licenses. These sites often use named-user licensing so that they do not need to wait for a user session to time out in order for the program to release the license. The user can simply sign in again at any time, and reclaim their named license.