License information page access

[SWeiler_9940261]

License management is done at the site level, but is there anyway to give someone access to the license information page without being a site admin? Their goal is to be able to see how many licenses there are and how many are available. Won't need access to load license file.

[ScottMorris]

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill-Ideas/Only-a-Windchill-Site-Administrator-can-change-user-licensing-in/idi-p/661636

[SWeiler_9940261]

Yeah, I can see why the limitation is there, but I guess what I'm looking for is a report of license usage at the org level.

[SWeiler_9940261]

As of 11.2, you can allow license management utility at the organization level by enabling the preference at site level.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS361404

[rhart]

There's a REST service, PTC.PrincipalMgmt, where you can query the license groups and principals, you could count how many users are in the license group with a REST url perhaps

[SWeiler_9940261]

I'm looking for something that a user can utilize, so something in the Windchill UI ideally. 

[Marco_Tosin · Accepted solution]

If you enable Windchill Performance Advisor, in the relevant dashboard you can see allocated licenses versus available licenses 

[STEVEG]

This looks like a good idea but you might have to give users added rights.  Not sure how that will work.

[joe_morton]

You can probably use a query builder report with the option "Bypass Access Control" to get current license counts that are assigned, but I don't know if the count of licenses available are stored in any database tables anywhere. 

[Marco_Tosin]

I have no idea if there is a table in the Windchill DB where real-time accesses are saved, so that we can check the users logged in at a specific time, however there are a couple of other reports that might be useful to check which licenses are assigned to a user and how frequently he uses them (every first daily access is reported).

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS320017

With the second one you can check what actions are available to users depending on the Windchill license profile

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS269927