Set up product features

• Add and control features and feature groups.
• To control the "lease period" for checking the license status of the client component.
• To setup a set of user defined fields (Total Application Agility). Not discussed in this article.

 

Zentitle enables the management of program features within your application. A "feature" may be considered to be any functionality that you may wish to activate/deactivate in a license code dependent manner. You can control which features are activated on which license codes, on a fine-grained level, or in bulk using license code profiles.

 

Features may be either node-locked or floating. A node-locked feature is associated with the client computer via its computerID. A floating feature is a feature enabled on your product that is available to any set, up to a specified maximum, of concurrent users of your product with a given license code.

If you plan to control and track features or functions within your application, then click the "features" tab.

Once on the features tab, you can add both "features" and "groups of features" to track within your application code.

To add a new feature click the "add feature" plus button.

 

A pop-up dialog will give you options to name the feature in the "title dialog box, then associate notes with the feature and finally to add a 5 digit unique alphanumeric string to identify the feature in your application code. 

Once you have added a new feature click save.

• To understand the different types of features available to you (floating, consumption, element pool, etc), check out the Popular Licensing Models article.

New features will show as a white bar in the feature panel.

 

You can go on repeating this process adding more features and functions as required.

If you make an error or you wish to make a change you can easily delete a feature with the delete button. First select the features to delete, then click the delete button on the right.

 

 

If you click delete you will need to confirm deletion. Deleting a feature is permanent.

Continue adding features in this way until you have all of those you wish to manage listed here.

 

If you want to organize a number of features together for easy reporting then you can create a feature group.

 

Adding a feature group is as easy as adding a feature, just click the top right button "add group".

 

Name the group and add any notes. Click save.

 

Once saved, you will now see a new group in the feature list tab.

 

Now you need to move your features into groups. Simply click the "move" button in the top right corner of the feature you want to put into a group.