This page guides you through the process of sharing Floating licenses through the My Chaos portal.

Cloud-based Floating Licensing allows you and your team to use a shared pool of Floating licenses entirely through the Cloud. This allows users to use licenses from any location without the need to be on the same local network or connect to an office network through a VPN.

See the video below, or scroll down to read a detailed workflow.

The Administrator can share the floating licenses with all Users within their Organization. Any user added to the Organization can use shared licenses by installing the Chaos product with all default settings and signing in to the product with their own Chaos Account.

1. Log into my.chaos.com and go to the Organization tab on the toolbar.

2. Go to the three-dot menu next to Users and select Invite Users.

3. Invite users to your Organization. For instructions on this step, see the My Chaos Guide page.

4. To enable Floating license sharing, open the three-dot menu next to the option and click Enable Floating license sharing.

At this point, any user within the Organization can use a shared floating license.

Fixed (or Solo) licenses are not affected when Floating License Sharing is enabled. Instead, such licenses are assigned individually.

Once Floating License Sharing is enabled for the Organization, any user in the Organization can use the shared licenses by installing their Chaos product with all the default installation settings and signing in to the product with their Chaos Account. When added to an Organization, users receive an email confirmation. If the user does not yet have a Chaos Account, the user can create one by following the link in the email invitation that they receive.

1. Have the Administrator add you to their Organization.
The Administrator can add you to the Organization with your email. If you do not yet have a Chaos Account yet, you can create one by following the link in the email confirmation you receive.

2. Install the Chaos product(s) your Organization has a license for. Proceed with a default installation. This installs the Chaos license utility locally. Sign in with your Chaos Account when prompted.

If you have already set up Floating licenses for your team with a centralized Chaos License Server and you want to move to the Cloud-based Floating Licensing setup:

Remote Licensing

If you already have a floating license setup with a centralized License Server within your local network, your users have selected Remote licensing in the Advanced installer options. To move to a Cloud-based Floating License setup, users will need to switch to Local licensing by re-installing the product and selecting Local licensing in the Advanced installer options. If users are installing a Chaos product for the first time, they only need to install with all the default options without selecting any of the Advanced installer options.

Floating Licenses assigned to Users

In case floating licenses are assigned to individual users in the Organization and are needed to be used as Shared Floating Licenses, the Administrator has to revoke the assignments. Only floating licenses assigned to the Organization’s Administrator are part of the shared floating pool. Then, enabling the Floating license sharing option through the my.chaos portal makes the licenses available to the users in the Organization.

• Floating License Sharing only affects Floating or Premium licenses. Fixed or Solo license can be individually assigned, but cannot be part of a shared floating pool.
• Only the Administrator’s licenses are shared with the Organization. Individually assigned floating licenses are not part of the shared pool, unless the assignments are revoked.
• Only licenses owned by the Organization can be shared. Licenses assigned to the Administrator from another Organization where the Administrator is a User are not part of the shared pool.
• Only Administrators can enable or disable Floating License Sharing for the Organization.
• A Cloud-based Floating License cannot be borrowed for offline use. The License needs to be personally assigned to that user, to allow them to borrow the license. For more information, on how an Administrator can assign a product license to a user, see the User Management Actions page.
• Shared licenses can be engaged by Organization users, but they will not appear in the users’ list of licenses.
• The cloud-based floating license setup described here is for Enscape 4.1 or later. If you’re already using shared floating licenses with a license key in Enscape 4.0 or older, you can use a similar setup by adding users to your Organization. Users can then sign in with their accounts to the product and use the shared floating licenses, or complete an account if they don’t have one.