License Activation/Deactivation
The following articles explain how to activate or deactivate Licenses.
The API provides options for activating/deactivating licenses using either the Online method or Offline method. For a detailed explanation on Online vs. Offline see: License Activation Types
There are two types of product licenses based on how the client application authorizes itself to interact with a license:
Each license assigned to the product requires the client to provide a license key in order to activate, check or deactivate the license (property license_key in the request body).
The license response object will contain the license_key property, and the property product_details.authorization_method will be the string license_key.
Each license assigned to the product has a corresponding "license user" instead of a license key. There are multiple ways a user-based product license can be accessed when making a request:
- By providing the values for username and password for the license user
- By providing the values for id_token and customer_account_code if using single sign-on authentication using Implicit grant
- By providing the values for code and customer_account_code if using single sign-on authentication using Authorization code grant
In the license response object, product_details.authorization_method will have the string value user and the response object will contain the user object with information on the license user.
The license_type property defines one of the 4 types of licenses based on their duration and how the license is used:
- Perpetual: perpetual
- Time-limited: time-limited
- Subscription: subscription
- Consumption: consumption
For more information see: License Types

