The Bizzdesign licensing system distinguishes different types of seats. A seat is related to a user's role in the Bizzdesign HoriZZon software, which determines the user's permissions for the different components of the solution. The seats are:

• Design seat: relates to the collaboration features in Enterprise Studio and Horizzon.
  A Design seat is taken if a user has the Lead Designer or Designer role. A Design seat automatically comes with a Contribute and Consume seat. In addition to the Designer or Lead Designer role, a user with a Design seat is also assigned the Contributor and Consumer roles. Only the highest seat (Design seat) will be taken.
  
  
• Contribute seat: relates to the contribute features in Horizzon.
  A Contribute seat is taken if a user has the Contributor role, but does not have the Lead Designer or Designer role. A Contribute seat automatically comes with a Consume seat, meaning that a user with a Contribute seat is not only assigned the Contributor role, but also the Consumer role. Only the highest seat (Contribute seat) will be taken.
  
  
• Consume seat: relates to the consume features in Horizzon.
  A Consume seat is taken if a user only has the Consumer role.

Users with only the Administrator or System Administrator role do not take a seat, and are therefore excluded from the license count.

Below is an example of how license seats are taken. Purchasing the following number of types of seats will effectively give your organization the following number of seats. Please note that the example applies to working with the full solution: Enterprise Studio + Horizzon Server (collaboration) + Horizzon (contribute and consume). If you only have Enterprise Studio + Horizzon Server (collaboration only), only Design seats are applicable.

You can view your license details at the HoriZZon license settings. Sign in to HoriZZon as a System Administrator user, and click Settings > License.

Transferability of seats

Seats are transferable between users, but within the boundaries of your license, meaning that the numbers of the different types of seats in the license cannot be exceeded. Basically, transferring seats is only possible if the target type of seat is available.

If you are working with the Bizzdesign cloud solution, or have an Enterprise license agreement for your on-premise solution, the HoriZZon license settings page only shows the amount of license seats taken, not the license seat limits. The transferability mechanism as explained below does apply, but the limitations do not. Your license seat information will look similar to the following:

The transferability is clarified by a few examples. In the examples, any admin users are not taken into account because they are not included in the seat count. For the examples the following license configuration is used:

• 1 Design seat
• 2 Contribute seats
• 4 Consume seats

Example 1

Your current user configuration includes 5 users (of possible 7) who take the following seats:

• User A: Design seat
• User B: Contribute seat
• User C: Contribute seat
• User D: Consume seat
• User E: Consume seat 

The license information on your license settings page would look as shown below. As you can see, your license is not yet fully used. You still have 2 Consume seats left that can be assigned.

Say that you want to transfer the Contribute seat from user C to user D who currently takes a Consume seat. To do this you would need to deactivate the Contributor role from user C and then activate this role for user D. In the process of doing so the seat occupancy changes: the moment you deactivate the Contributor role from user C, the seat this user takes changes from Contribute to Consume, effectively meaning the following:

As you can see, the number of Consume seats has been increased with 1, and the number of taken Contribute seats has been reduced with 1. You can also see that the seats are still not fully used. The (temporary) increase of Consume seats still fits your license seats, so no problems there.  When subsequently activating the Contribute role for user D, the seat occupancy changes back to its original occupancy as shown in the first image because user D now takes take a Contribute seat.

Example 2

You are still using the seat configuration from example 1. Now, if you would want to transfer the Design seat from user A to user B who currently takes a Contribute seat, it would not be possible. The license does not allow the seat space needed for transferring. When deactivating the Designer role from user A, the seat this user takes changes from Design to Contribute, resulting in the following seat occupancy:

Since User A is now taking a Contribute seat, this transfer exceeds the software license since there were no free Contribute seats available, as can be seen in the above image. Also, a message will be shown at the top of the window indicating that the maximum number of users has been exceeded. You initially have 14 days to resolve the seat shortage, either by reassigning seats or by extending your software license.