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The ANY-maze licence manager

Only ANY-maze administrators can activate and deactivate licenses, unless your administrator has specified in the Administrative options that all users, not just administrators, can do this.

Introduction

The ANY-maze licence manager is used to purchase, renew, activate or deactivate an ANY-maze licence.

In fact you only actually need a licence for the copy of ANY-maze which you'll use for tracking. You can install unlicensed copies on as many other computers as you like, and use them to set up experiments, analyse results, transfer data etc.

How licensing works

Every time you install ANY-maze on a computer, it's given a serial number by the installation program. This number is unique to that specific copy of ANY-maze; this is the case even if you use exactly the same installation program to install ANY-maze on a number of different computers - each copy will have a different serial number.

When you buy an ANY-maze licence, what we actually supply you with is a licence number. You then use this number to activate your licence - this switches on the tracking system's ability to save results.

A critical thing to understand is that licence numbers are paired with serial numbers. In other words, a specific licence number will only switch on the ability to save tracking results in the copy of ANY-maze that has the serial number that is paired with that licence number. For this reason, when you buy a licence, you will need to supply us with the serial number of the copy of ANY-maze you actually want to license.

Accessing the licence manager

To open the ANY-maze licence manager, select the Support page and then click the Licensing option in the left-hand side bar - or you can click this link to go there now.

Figure 1. The licence management part of the ANY-maze Support page.

The licence manager will show a summary of your current licence (if you have one) and the ribbon bar will contain options for activating, deactivating, purchasing and renewing licences.

Using the licence manager

The ANY-maze licence manager allows you to:

This information is shown on the licensing page when it is first selected.

If your tracking computer is connected to the internet, you can use the Purchase or renew licence button in the ribbon bar, and the licence manager will take you through the necessary steps to purchase or renew a licence.

When you purchase a licence, what we actually supply you with is a licence number which you then need to activate by entering it into the licence manager. Use the Activate licence in the ribbon bar to activate a copy of ANY-maze for which you've been given the licence number.

Deactivating a licence is useful if you want to transfer a licence from one copy of ANY-maze to another - for example, when you purchase a new computer. In this situation, you simply deactivate the licence on the old machine, and we then supply you with a new licence number which you can activate on the new machine.

To transfer an ANY-maze licence from one computer to another, use the Deactivate licence button in the ribbon bar to deactivate the licence on the first machine. Full details are included in the licence manager, but briefly, this entails:

1. Deactivating the licence on the original computer.

2. Sending an e-mail to ANY-maze Support, quoting the serial number of the copy of ANY-maze on the original computer, together with the serial number of the copy of ANY-maze on the new computer.

3. ANY-maze Support will send you a licence number for the new computer, which you'll need to enter using the licence manager on the ANY-maze software on that new computer.

More information

The licence manager itself includes comprehensive instructions and documentation - you can go directly to it by clicking this link.

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