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Form for managing third party license usage?

Last post 12-18-2008 09:43 AM by dlgross. 1 replies.
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  • 12-18-2008 09:17 AM

    Form for managing third party license usage?

    I was thinking it would be helpful to create a web part on Sharepoint, that could maintain sets of licenses used by my team and our end users.

    We have multiple applications in use, and each may have 1 license per user, 1 license for a set of users, a license and user name or registration number, etc.  I started to envision an Infopath form. What I need help with is how to design the form to work the way I want.

    I would have fields like so:

    Application Name

    Then I would have a section set up, where the user can add a next to have a second one.  The purpose would be so that if I get a 2 user license for this application, I can enter in the info for the 2 licenses and their usage.  6 Months later I get a 5 user license, and I need to enter that info in, I can replicate the section and enter that info in.  Make sense?
    So the section would look like this:

    Bundle (license) Name:
    Amount of Users:
    Registration #:
    License #:
    User1 Name:
    User1 PC Name:
    User2 Name:
    User2 PC Name:

    Two thoughts here:
    one on user name additions -  
    Either you can just hit an "add" button to add another username/pcname -or-
    the "amount of users" number you enter would trigger that many user# names and PC names to show up. 
     
    The Bundle/Section thought: 
    At the bottom, you have a button to add another bundle and you can do it all over again, for when you purchase another bundle that has a different reg and license info.
     

    Summary thoughts:
    Then for this application, on the sharepoint page showing the summary for this application, it would have a total of all "amount of users" in every bundle, and the total usernames filled out in each bundle for what is in use, for a result of how many are available.

    Please tell me if I am out of my gord and getting too complicated!

    Thanks.
  • 12-18-2008 09:43 AM In reply to

    Re: Form for managing third party license usage?

    you should be able to do this with Repeating Sections and Repeating tables. these enable you to add data as needed.

    I recommend focusing on the data schema first, and then the design of the form

    Something like the following should work

    Applications (group)

    Name

    Purchase Date

    Purchase Amt

    Supplier/Vendor

    etc

    Licenses (Group)

    Type (choice)-single user, multi user, named user, concurrent user, etc)

    Effective Date

    Expiration Date

    etc

    Users

    Name

    Locations

    etc

    HTH

    Dean

    Dean
    Charlotte, NC
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