Windchill Licensing Pathway
Windchill licensing is organized into commercial packages. You are required to order the license packages from the PTC catalog. When you purchase a package, all related serviceable items and their features are properly licensed and assigned to you through license groups and profiles. Users become entitled when added to any of the license groups. Users must be members of one or more license groups. When Administrator user adds an user to a License Group, the feature usage is counted and the user interface actions are allowed or hidden based on the following information.
• License profile to which the license group is associated.
• License feature that the group represents.
The license ordering process determines which license features are available and how users are assigned access within Windchill. The following diagram outlines the Windchill licensing workflow.
1. Placing the License Order — When you place an order with PTC, the orderable item is a commercial package. A commercial package represents a purchasable offering and contains one or more serviceable items.
2. Commercial Packages and Serviceable Items — Each commercial package includes serviceable items that define the package contents. Serviceable items represent the specific Windchill modules or functional capabilities to which access is provided.
3. Package Contents and License Features — The package contents include Windchill license features. These license features are mapped to one or more license groups in the system.
4. License Profiles and License Groups — License profiles are mapped to license groups out of the box (OOTB). This mapping determines which license features are available to users assigned to a specific license group.
5. User Assignment to License Groups — The administrator assigns users to the appropriate license groups based on the package contents included in the purchased commercial package. This assignment controls the Windchill functionality accessible to each user.
Licensing Terminologies
• User — An end user who needs to be entitled with a Named or Concurrent license to use the Windchill user interface.
• User group — A user group to which Windchill privileges that includes license entitlements, are assigned
• License — A collection of Windchill capabilities (as defined by a license feature string) that is purchased by customers for their end users
• Part Number — This is a sellable package that is orderable and contains one or more licenses.
• License Feature — A unique name assigned to a license by Windchill which is used inside License Files generated by PTC business systems.
• License File — A file generated from PTC business systems that contains the license features and their quantities assigned by customers to be used on specific Windchill environments.
• License Profile — License profile is the definition of the contents of a license in Windchill. It specifies the user interface actions that are enabled or disabled in a license.
• License Group — A specialized group that is associated to a license profile. Users are entitled with a license by adding them to a license group. User interface actions are shown to or hidden from members of a license group based on its associated license profile.
• Access Control List — This list is an evaluated set of Policy Administration rules that grants or denies object‑level permissions to users and groups.