When the application does a check of the license, there are several elements that it will use to ensure that the license is valid. These elements do vary depending on whether the application has been enabled for online license validation or not.
Eralis licenses do not use the hardware key. A change of hardware does not require a change to the license file. This means that an upgraded license supplied for testing purposes can be applied to the production environment (unless other factors identified below have changed), even if the testing was carried out in a different environment.
Online Enabled Applications
Once an application has been upgraded to enable online license management, the following elements will be checked when validating the license. Any change to one of these elements will require an updated license:
| Data Element | Description |
|---|---|
| The SAP Business One System Number | This is an identity number provided by SAP when requesting licenses from the SAP portal and should not change. |
| The number of users | This relates to the number of users for the specific Eralis product. If the number of users required for the application changes, a new license will be required. |
| The Eralis product series |
The license that is provided is linked to the specific Eralis product series. The product series is made up of the first four digits of the product version number. If the company upgrades to a new series, a new or updated license will be required which will only be provided if the client maintenance is up-to-date. Below is an illustration of the structure of an Eralis product version number, using the version number 9.02.140 as an example: Section 1 = 9.02 illustrates the SAP version that the development was based on Section 2 = 1xx illustrates the series number for that product version Section 3 = 40 illustrates the patch level within the series |
| The expiry date of the license | This is only relevant to subscription licenses and demonstration licenses which have a defined expiry date. The system will provide warnings when the license is due to expire. |
Manual Applications
The applications prior to version 8.81.200 use the following data elements when validating a license. A change to any of the following elements will require a new license.
| Data Element | Description |
|---|---|
| The SAP Business One System Number | This is an identity number provided by SAP when requesting licenses from the SAP portal and should not change. |
| The number of users | This relates to the number of users for the specific Eralis product. If the number of users required for the application changes, a new license will be required. |
| The SAP Business One version number | This relates to the main SAP version number and not the patch level. As an example, if you are upgrading from SAP Business One version 8.8 through to 8.81, then a new license will be required. If you are upgrading from SAP Business One 8.81 PL5 to 8.81 PL10, then no new license will be needed. |
| The expiry date of the license | This is only relevant to subscription licenses and demonstration licenses which have a defined expiry date. The system will provide warnings when the license is due to expire. |
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