not even for pro bono or charity work is just pig headed. what about teaching yourself to use features to improve your work flow, employer wont pay for you to dabble with new features or tools...

Hello all

The HOME USE license is no longer available and we will not bring it back in the near future. With the introduction of SES licensing users have the license follow them and the license is not tied to a machine. Does not matter which machine the user uses, the license follows you. We have several documents on this from our Work from Home campaign.

Samir Haque

Ian Lapper over 2 years ago

OK here is a situation that WILL I have encountered.......... and one that WILL effect anyone wanting to use a home use license with CONNECT

I wanted to try something from home. I am unable to do so without using a FULL License, this means that my home pc will appear as a usage on the Bentley usage reports, it also means that anyone else wanting to use a home license will ALSO appear as a full license user and you guessed it Bentley will start to send out over usage invoices.

Additionally, it appears we are NO LONGER able to trial any software without it being added to the usage and thus invoiced as a actual usage. This means we are unable to test other software for free.

This is a TOTAL MESS that Bentley have created and ONE that I feel needs addressing ASAP. This is not right, its not what we signed up for with our Select agreements and is a back step for Bentley.

WE NEED TO SHOW BENTLEY OUR FRUSTRATION AND GET THEM TO ACT!!!!!!!

Please vote, its the only way they will listen... we did it for Bentley VIEW, we can do it again for HOME USE LICENSES

Ian

--helgeh over 1 year ago in reply to Ian Lapper

Hi. I have been in contact with Bentley the last days and they say there are no plans to bring this back in to Connect edition. Also no good alternatives... Very frustrating

Ian Lapper over 1 year ago in reply to helgeh

Helgeh

Thank you for the update. I too have had the same response.....however, They said this about Bentley View and we won. But if we want this we need to VOTE and make Bentley aware of our frustrations.

There needs to be some sort of testing scheme/license available...............that doesn't take up a full license and we end up paying £££££ or $$$$$ for using their software to improve it

Ian

-helgeh over 1 year ago in reply to Ian Lapper

Hi Ian

Yes lets hope so, VOTE.

But still, just removing this without providing a good Connect edition training alternative, and also doing this without telling users that is just to much... Not that it would help alot, but if nothing else it would have been easier to avoid any "surprise" bill when trying to learn Connect.

Helge

NicolasT over 1 year ago

Within Elia, new designers often received a home use license on their request to exercise Microstation @ home. Sad that this is not available anymore. Asking around in the Belgian user Groups, many users agree that home use licenses should remain available. How difficult can this be ? thank you in advance for your consideration.

Ian Lapper over 1 year ago

Just to give an update... The Home use license is still not available and we really do need to lobby Bentley to get this valuable resource back... VOTES COUNT.......

Bentley have just release CONNECTIONS Client v17. This allows users a 7 day offline period, which helps, shame its not 30 days as per V8i but every little thing they give us counts. However, it doesn't address the needs of their users.

GIVE US THE HOME USE LICENSE BACK.......if you need to change the way it is monitored... OK

Ian

Nadine Daro 5 months ago

We need a Home use license

Jon Summers 12 months ago in reply to Ian Lapper

> Why would ANYONE press No to this vote?

The voting system is idiosyncratic. If you've already voted for an idea, then vote again then the votes total is decremented. There's no way to tell if you've already voted for something other than to vote and observe if total votes decrements, indicating that you're attempting a second vote. You must then vote again to restore the total vote count.

Ivo Blaauw 12 months ago in reply to Jon Summers

If you have voted, the arrow changes color in the direction that you voted. So voting up makes the upward arrow turn orange, voting down turns the downward arrow orange. Voting again undoes your previous vote and renders them both gray. I do not recall if this has always been the case.

Nadine Daro over 1 year ago

I agree with Nicolas T

Best

Ian Lapper over 1 year ago in reply to Nadine Daro

users around the world.... we still need VOTES......

Ian Lapper 12 months ago in reply toIan Lapper

35 VOTE... keep voting if you want this..

Oto 12 months ago

Bentley helping home users to seek for cracked software.

Ian Lapper 11 months ago

AT what point do BENTLEY review this and say YES or NO........Its crazy having to use a full license to train, test software

Ivo Blaauw 11 months ago in reply to Ian Lapper

Ian, remember the 100+ votes for Bentley View CE?

Ian Lapper 11 months ago in reply to Ian Lapper

WE NEED 58 more VOTE...............

Ian Lapper 5 months ago in reply to Ian Lapper

With V8i licenses coming to an end at the end of the year, Anyone using the V8i home license will soon have to use a full license. We have seen that users install MS on their home pcs and use the connection client to login to get a full license. this has caused issues with licenses over usage.

We need to be able to stop this. We also need a way to let users train themselves at home. The HOE license program was perfect for this.

With an admin module CAD Managers will be able to control who has it etc.

WE NEED the HOME licenses tools back and a management interface to help administer it

Come on Bentley reply.

Ian