Associating a license term to a license

You can associate a new license term you created or an existing KnowledgeBase term to one or more custom or KnowledgeBase licenses.

When a license term is associated to a license, that term will appear to users when viewing licenses terms, for example, in the BOM.

Only users with the License Manager role can associate a license term to a license.

You can associate a term to a license when:

• Creating a license term. Click here for more information about creating a new term.

• Using the License Terms tab which lists all license terms:

  
  
  

• Using the License Terms tab for an individual license:

  
  
  

To associate a license term to one or more licenses:

Use these procedures to associate a license term to one or more licenses.

1. Log in to Black Duck with the License Manager role.

2. Click > Licenses.

   The License Management page appears.

   Select the License Terms tab to display all license terms.

   
   
   

3. Click in the row of the license term and select License Association.

   The License Association dialog box appears.

   
   
   

4. Use this dialog box to associate the term. To add a license: Begin typing the license name that you want to associate to this term. The list is type-ahead enabled, so you can see a list of available licenses that contain the text you have typed. Select the license and click Add.

   Enter additional license names to associate the term with additional licenses.

5. Optionally, select the licenses for which this term requires fulfillment:

   1. Select the check box next to the license where fulfillment of this term is required.

   2. Click Require Fulfillment. The Fulfillment Required icon () appears in the table for the license where this term is required.

      Click Remove Fulfillment Requirement to remove the requirement that this term must be fulfilled.

6. Click Close.

To associate an existing license term to a specific license:

1. Log in to Black Duck with the License Manager role.

2. Click > Licenses.

   The License Management page appears.

   
   
   

3. In the Licenses tab, select the license name to display the License Name Settings tab.

   
   
   

4. Select the License Terms tab to view the terms associated with this tab.

   
   
   

5. Click Add Term to open the Add Term dialog box.

6. Select Existing to add an existing license term.

   
   
   

7. Begin typing the license name that you want to associate to this term. The list is type-ahead enabled, so you can see a list of available license terms that contain the text you have typed. This list displays all license terms – custom and KnowledgeBase terms.

8. Select the license term. The information for this term appears in the dialog box.

9. Optionally, select whether fulfillment is required for this term.

10. Click Add. The License Terms tab appears for this license with the new term added. The Fulfillment Required icon () will appear for any required terms.