HOFA-Plugins Manager

Activation & Deactivation

OverviewBesides installing the plugins/software from HOFA, the HOFA-Plugins Manager also allows you to manage your activations. This applies to activation, deactivation and a license overview. Additionally, temporary licenses can be imported.

After clicking on “LICENSES” the following window appears:

After logging in you can activate or deactivate machines or flash drives or view a summery of your activated devices.

Without logging in you can request your login name or a new password and also import temporary licenses. Software on machines without internet connection can be used via an activated USB flash drive.

After logging in you can choose between activation, deactivation or a license summary.

ActivationYou first need to choose the machine or flash drive you'd like to activate. Only the machine on which HOFA-Plugins Manager is executed and attached flash drives can be selected. If a flash drive isn't shown it might help to restart the HOFA-Plugins Manager.

On the next page choose the licenses to activate. Beside the name of the plugin/software, the available and overall activations are shown. A machine that has already been activated is marked as such but can be activated again without using up another activation. This can for example be useful to repair a broken license.

While the licenses get activated a progress bar is shown:

Finally, a summery of the activation is shown:

DeactivationOn the first page you can select the machine or flash drive to deactivate. Starting with HOFA-Plugins Manager V2.0.0 it is also possible to deactivate machines other than the one HOFA-Plugins Manager is running on and flash drives that aren't attached.

Now you can choose the licenses to deactivate:

During the deactivation process a progress bar is shown:

Finally, a summary is shown:

License SummaryThe license overview shows all activated devices. This also includes flash drives not connected to the machine that is running HOFA-Plugins Manager and further machines. Additionally, an overview of available activations is shown under “Available”.

Import Temporary License FileYou can import temporary license files, for example for further testing besides the normal demo period. After a page with a short description you can browse to the license file (.hofalic). You can request a temporary license via email to plugins@hofa.de.

If a license file already exists a dialog asks whether it should be overwritten:

Contact

HOFA GmbH

Lusshardtstraße 1-3

D-76689 Karlsdorf

email: plugins@hofa.de

Phone : 0049 7251 3472 444

www.hofa-plugins.de