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License Renewal Procedure

Overview

If you have renewed your annual support service contract and extended the Enterprise Edition license period, please update your license file using this procedure.

Limitations

  1. When the license file expires, the following occurs:
  2. The license will revert to the AGPL (GNU Affero General Public License).
  3. If you have expanded columns, the expanded columns will be hidden. However, the data in the database will remain saved.
  4. The limit on the number of registered users will be lifted.
  5. Pleasanter Extensions (Development Tools, Operations Tools) will no longer be available.

Prerequisites

  1. This procedure assumes that you have upgraded Pleasanter to the Enterprise Edition.

Operation Procedure

  1. Storing the License File
  2. Verifying the Upgrade
  3. Column Expansion Procedure

Operation Procedure

1. Storing the License File

  1. Stop Pleasanter.
  2. Windows Environment
    1. Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
    2. In the left pane, select "Site" - "Default Web Site" and click "Stop" in the right pane.
  3. Linux Environment
    1. Execute the following command:
      sudo systemctl stop pleasanter

  4. Azure App Service Environment

    1. Open the App Service and click "Stop".

  5. Overwrite and copy "Implem.License.dll" included in the license pack to the following folders depending on your environment:

  6. Windows Environment
    • C:\web\pleasanter\Implem.Pleasanter
    • C:\web\pleasanter\Implem.CodeDefiner
  7. Linux Environment
    • /web/pleasanter/Implem.Pleasanter
    • /web/pleasanter/Implem.CodeDefiner
  8. Azure App Service Environment
    • C:\home\site\wwwroot\
    • C:\home\site\CodeDefiner

The above paths are for installations following the instructions in our online manual. Please adapt them appropriately for your environment.

2. Verify the Upgrade

  1. Launch Pleasanter.
  2. Windows Environment
    1. Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
    2. In the left pane, select "Site" - "Default Web Site" and click "Start" in the right pane.
  3. Linux Environment
    1. Execute the following command:
      sudo systemctl start pleasanter

  4. Azure App Service Environment

    1. Open App Service and click "Start".

  5. Log in to Pleasanter and check the following from "Help" - "Version" in the navigation menu.

  6. The license is set to "Commercial License".
  7. The license expiration date is correct (for a license valid until the end of February, it will display 3/1).
  8. The user is correct.

3. Column Expansion

The Community Edition allows you to use 156 columns in total, including 26 for each column type: "Class Column", "Numeric Value Column", "Date Column", "Description Column", "Check Column" and "Attachment Column". The Enterprise Edition allows you to expand the number of columns.

DB Maximum number of columns available in Enterprise Edition Notes
SQL Server Maximum of 900 columns in total across the six column types
PostgreSQL Maximum of 900 columns in total across the six column types
MySQL Maximum of 256 columns in total across the six column types MySQL can be used with Pleasanter version 1.4.9.0 or later.

If you wish to increase or decrease the column expansion in conjunction with a license renewal, please follow the steps in "Column Expansion".