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Using the Domino Administrator, you can track the number of Notes and non-Notes clients who are authorized to access your Domino servers. First, you assign license types to each client. Then you view this licensing information in the Domino Directory.
You can assign the following types of licenses:
Assigning license types
You can assign license types manually, or you can create an agent or action to assign license types to multiple users simultaneously.
Assigning license types manually
To assign license types manually, you edit Person documents.
2. Click the People & Groups tab.
3. Select the Person document to which you want to assign a license type, and click Edit Person.
4. Click the Administration tab.
5. In the "Notes client license" field, choose one or more license types.
6. Click Save and Close.
The procedures below describe one way of creating the form and the agent.
Creating the form
To create a form in the Domino Directory, you should first create a copy of the Domino Directory template file and then create the form in the copy of the template file. For directions and rules about creating a coy of the Domino Directory template file, see the topic "Customizing the Domino Directory template" in Domino Administration Help or in the book Administering the Domino System.
2. Open the Forms view.
3. Click New Form.
4. Choose Create->Layout Region->New Layout Region.
5. Do the following to add text to the layout region:
7. Choose Edit->Properties, and do the following in the Field properties box:
10. In the Layout properties box, adjust the Width and Height of the layout region to the size you want.
11. (Optional) In the Form properties box, click the Form Background tab, and change the background color of the form region. Light gray is the most commonly used color for this purpose.
12. Choose File->Save, name the form "(SetLicenseType)" and then click OK.
13. Add the form to the Domino Directory. For directions, see the topic "Applying template customizations to the Domino Directory database" in Domino Administration Help or in the book Administering the Domino System.
2. Open the Agents view.
3. Click New Agent.
4. In the Name field, type Set License Type.
5. In the "When should this agent run?" field, choose Manually From Actions Menu.
6. In the "Which document(s) should it act on?" field, choose Selected documents.
7. In the Run field in the Programmer's pane, choose Lotuscript.
8. Click Initialize, and then add the following code to the Programmer's pane
Dim NV_currentView As NotesView
Dim NDC_collection As NotesDocumentCollection
Dim ND_document As NotesDocument
Dim NI_item As NotesItem
Dim NS_session As New NotesSession
Dim NW_workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace
Dim NV_Values As Variant
'enumerate currently selected notes
Set NV_currentView = NDB_currentDB.GetView ("People")
Set NDC_collection = NDB_currentDB.UnprocessedDocuments
Set ND_document = NDC_collection.GetFirstDocument
NV_Values = ND_document.getItemValue( "ClientType")
'set the ClientType field to the value retrieved from the dialog box
Call ND_document.save( True, True)
'ND_document is the current note handle
Loop
Using the agent
To use the agent to assign license types, do the following:
2. Select the people to whom you want to assign the same license type(s).
3. Choose Actions->Set License Type.
4. Choose the license types you want to assign to the people you selected.
5. Click OK to assign the license types, or press ESC to cancel assigning the license types.
2. Open the Server\Licenses view.
3. Expand each section to view the people to whom you assigned each type of license.
Precedence of license types in the Server\Licenses view
The following table shows the precedence for determining which license type to display in the Server\Licenses view. The table also shows the category in which each license type is displayed in the view.
Precedence | License type | Category in the view |
1 | Lotus Notes Mail | Clients\Lotus Notes Mail |
2 | Lotus Notes Desktop | Clients\Lotus Notes Desktop |
3 | Lotus Notes | Clients\Lotus Notes |
4 | Lotus iNotes/Domino CAL | Client (alternate access)\Lotus iNotes/Domino CAL |
5 | Lotus Notes Designer
Lotus Notes Administration | Client (alternate access)\Other* OR Client (alternate access)\Unknown* |