Starting January 2025, Solver adds an additional license type, a “contributor” license, to the product and an updated experience when assigning licenses and feature access. The Contributor license is budget focused license type with access to:
- Home menu
- Process Manager
- Publisher Recipient
- Assignments (both direct assignments and assignments created through a workflow)
- Drilldown capabilities are available if assigned.
Users will notice the following changes
- License summary information has been moved to the Customer level and removed from each tenant. This will improve the licensing experience as a users license applies across all tenants.
The license summary tab will include:- The total count of in use and available licenses per type along with the
- A Listing of all users of a tenant and their assigned license.
- Licenses are assigned on the users menu. The dropdown displays the 3 license types available in Solver and an additional “unlicensed” option:
- Viewer
- Users assigned to this license type will have access to
- Home
- Process Manager
- Report Archive
- Publisher Distribution Recipient
- Ad Hoc
- Users assigned to this license type will have access to
- Contributor
- Users assigned to this license type will have access to:
- Home
- Process Manager
- Report Archive
- Publisher Distribution Recipient
- Assignments & Assignments
- Users assigned to this license type will have access to:
- Standard
- Users assigned to this license type will have access to any feature in Solver that is assigned to them.
- Unlicensed
- Use this if you need to temporarily remove access for a user to give someone else permissions to Solver.
- Viewer
- The features that you assign to a user to, such as Reporting, Report Designer, Data Warehouse access have been moved to the Permissions tab and can be assigned at the User or the Role level.
New Permissions
As mentioned above, access to the features of Solver has been moved to Permissions. The Permissions menu lists all features that you can grant a user to. With this month’s update, updates the Permissions menu, grouping permissions by feature for better clarity and has the following for actions previously done on the Licenses tab.
| Pre Jan 2025 Update | Jan 2025 Update |
| Reporting | Can run Report templates |
| Report Designer | Can create and edit Report and Input templates |
| Report Archive | No longer needs to be assigned |
| Planning | Can run Input templates |
| Data Warehouse | Can view Data Warehouse |
This months update also includes additional permissions to better control what features users can access. The following, more granular permissions, are available.
| Pre Jan 2025 Update | Jan 2025 Update |
| Creating Publisher distributions was available to anyone with a Report Designer license | Access to create a Publisher Distribution now requires “Can automate distribution of reports” permissions. 1 |
| Creating an Input Flow was available to anyone with a Report Designer and Planning | Access to create Input Flows now requires the “Can automate storage of Input templates”. 2 |
| Creating Workflows was available to anyone with a Report Designer and Planning license | Access to create a workflow now requires “Can manage Planning workflows” permissions. 2 |
2. “Can run Input template” permissions required as well
New User Interface
These new licensing updates will include a new way to create and edit licenses for administrators.
Previous License Experience:
New Licensing Experience:
