Sharing RH 8 license

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March 28, 2011
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Hello,

I am a new contractor in a large organization and I am going to be sharing an RH8 license with another user who has already been using the license and working with another team of people. I'm concerned before I download it that I need to consider the preferences or decisions the other user made when installing. For example, did the person install the server with it? does it matter if it's RH for Word or RH HTML? Any warnings on this?

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Captiv8r

Legend

Hi there

From what I'm seeing, it would seem that you are expecting to download the software to your own PC and "share" the license that way.

You can get away with that to an extent, but you would be violating your agreement with Adobe. They intend for each license installed to be used by the same person. That license allows for installing and activating on two different machines. But the intent is to have one install at the workplace. Then another on either a laptop used by the same individual when traveling, or on their home PC so they might take work home.

Either way, the settings selected during one install won't have anything to do with the settings during the second.

Cheers... Rick

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luviola10Author

Inspiring

thank you, Rick. You read my mind. I don't intend to do this then. Thanks

for clarifying.

Gloria Ryan

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RoboAsh

Participating Frequently

Hi Gloria,

There is a way that you can even share the license and do not violate any agreement but this is only possible when both of you do not require to use RoboHelp simultaneously (Only one of you uses RoboHelp at a time), Adobe allows deactivating of a license on one machine and using the same license on another machine so one of you intends who wants to use the license can ask the other guy to deactivate it on his/her machine and activate using the same key and return the key when required vice-versa

But never try using this simultaneously or you will voilate the user agreement!

Hope this Helps

Ashish

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Not exactly sure what you mean by sharing the license - RH is installed on a machine with a license. If you have a user profile on that machine and the original installer installed RH to be accessible by all users of the machine, then you would see the shortcut(s) on your desktop. Only one of you would be using the software at one time, since only one of you could be logged in. The projects that you work on would be located in a place common to both of you (if you wanted to share the projects), otherwise, you would keep your projects in your own profile.