Overview

Exclusively for Player on Windows, Intuiface users have a couple of options for simplifying the licensing of Player across multiple devices. This page details those two options. They are:

1. Hands-free Licensing: Suitable for use with an imaged Windows PC that will be rolled out to any number of computers.
2. Credential Key Licensing: Suitable for manual licensing of multiple Players as it uses a single, identical key.

In both cases, if a license is not available, Player will display a pop-up message indicating failure to retrieve a license. Dismissing this window will close Player.

Hands-Free Licensing

A common solution for large scale software deployments of any kind is to create an image of a correctly configured PC and then install that OS image across multiple devices. Under normal licensing circumstances, this approach would be a challenge for Intuiface because although automated license retrieval is supported, this retrieval only occurs after a manual login.

Intuiface Player on Windows has the unique ability to support automated license retrieval without requiring manual login.

NOTE

• This capability is specific to Player on Windows and is only available to those in possession of an Enterprise-level Intuiface account.

Enabling Self-Licensing

1. Install Intuiface Player if you haven't done so already. If Player was already installed, and was run at least once, delete the file license.ipl located in the folder C:\ProgramData\IntuiLab\Intuiface\Player (for Intuiface 6 and above) or C:\ProgramData\IntuiLab\Intuiface5\Player (for Intuiface 5)
2. Open the Credential Keys page in a Web browser.
3. Generate a "Hands-Free Licensing" key if you don't already have one.
4. In the section for your Hands-Free Licensing key is a file named Hands-FreeLicensing.ifc. Download this file.
5. Place the downloaded file Hands-FreeLicensing.ifc into the folder C:\Users\Public\Documents.
6. Create an OS image.
7. Deploy your OS image to one PC and verify that everything is working as intended.
8. Deploy that image to all other PCs

Each instance of Player, when run, will now be able to request a license without first requiring someone to log into an Intuiface account. This approach is infinitely scalable, limited only by the number of licenses available in your Intuiface account.

Preloading Experiences Before Deployment

This hands-free licensing approach can include preloading of an Intuiface experience. By doing so, your first use of Management Console for automated experience deployment would not have to push the entire project over the Internet.

Imagine a 1GB project and a deployment of 300 Players. The original deployment of that huge project via Management Console to 300 Players would take an extremely long time to complete. If the 1GB project was preloaded by Player before creation of the OS image, all 300 devices would have the 1GB project already installed before Management Console use.

Here is the process:

1. Install Intuiface Player and license it.
2. Optionally configure the Windows PC to automatically restart Player after a PC reboot.
3. Use Player to download the published experience you intend to deploy.
4. Run the experience to verify that everything is in working order then shut down Player.
5. Open the Credential Keys page in a Web browser.
6. Generate a "Hands-Free Licensing" key if you don't already have one.
7. In the section for your Hands-Free Licensing key is a file named Hands-FreeLicensing.ifc. Download this file.
8. Place the downloaded file Hands-FreeLicensing.ifc into the folder C:\Users\Public\Documents.
9. Delete the file license.ipl located in the folder C:\ProgramData\IntuiLab\Intuiface\Player (for Intuiface 6 or above) or C:\ProgramData\IntuiLab\Intuiface5\Player (for Intuiface 5)
10. Create an OS image.
11. Install that OS image on one PC and verify that everything is working as intended.
12. Install that image on all other targeted PCs

Credential Key Licensing

The advantage of this option is the person installing Player does not need to know either the Intuiface account login credentials or individual license keys. A single credential key can be used on any number of Windows PCs that will be used to run Player.

Step One: Obtain your account's Hands-Free Licensing credential key

Open the Credential Keys page in a Web browser. Here you have the option of copying an existing Hands-Free Licensing credential key or creating then copying a new credential key.

See our article about credential key management if you wish to create a new key.

Step Two: Enter the credential key into Player

Take the credential key from Step One and paste it into the "Credential Key" field at the bottom of the Player login panel. Then click the "Log In" button.

Any available Player license will be automatically checked out.