Providing Activation Details When Selling Through the LabVIEW Tools Network

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When a product is sold through NI, the customer is sent an email with a "Product Activation Code" along with some activation instructions, similar to this:

Subject:

Activation Information for your ni.com purchase: <Product Name>

Body:

Hello <Customer Name>,

Thank you for purchasing from ni.com.  This email contains the purchase, activation, and support information for your LabVIEW Tools Network product.

Please find your purchase and product activation information below.

Product Name:

<Product Name>

Part #:

<NI Part Number>

Order #:

<NI Order Number>

Product Activation Code:

<Unique Activation Code>

Installation and Activation instructions:

If you haven't already installed this product, you may download it from the following URL:

<LabVIEW Tools Network Download URL>

<2-3 sentences describing the activation process>

For support, please contact the support team for this product at:

<product support email address>.

For order questions please contact:

labviewtoolsnetwork@ni.com

Thank You,

LabVIEW Tools Network Team

National Instruments

To facilitate this automated fulfillment email, our team requires some additional information to add to our fulfillment system.  Please provide the following information to the LabVIEW Tools Network upon submission so we can help get this set up.

Activation Codes

These are the "Product Activation Code" that is sent to customers at time of purchase.  We need a list of 50-100 unique activation codes so our database is ready for any new sales that come in.

If you have used the NI LabVIEW Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit (TPLAT) to license your product, you can generate a list of codes automatically through the SOLO Server by following these instructions

1. Sign in to your SOLO Server account using the same credentials used to license the product.  For TPLAT Standard Mode products, the SOLO Server login page can be found at https://softwarekey.ni.com/solo/authors/.  For TPLAT Advanced Mode products, please contact Concept Software if you do not know the URL of your SOLO Server account.
2. From the top menu bar, navigate to Customers > Add Multiple Licenses.
3. Complete the Product,  # Licenses to Add (50-100 should be sufficient), and Unit Price (the value doesn't matter but it's a required field).  Click "Submit".
4. Review the settings and then click "Create Licenses"
5. Copy and send us the list of licenses and passwords when you submit your Marketing Submission in the following format:

License ID: XXXXXXX  Activation Password: XXXXXXX

License ID: XXXXXXX  Activation Password: XXXXXXX

License ID: XXXXXXX  Activation Password: XXXXXXX

If you do not use Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit for licensing your product, please contact your licensing vendor to learn how to generate a block of 50-100 codes and send these to the LabVIEW Tools Network team when you submit your Marketing Submission.  Codes must be less than 75 characters each.

If your activation system requires a user to send computer information to you before they can activate, we still need some sort of activation code to send them at the time of purchase.  This can be any uniquely identifying string of characters which acts as a proof of purchase for the customer (for example TESTCONF001, TESTCONF002, etc). 

Activation Instructions

This should be 2-3 sentences that describe the activation process for your customers.  If your product is a LabVIEW add-on and you have used the NI LabVIEW Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit (TPLAT) to license your product, you may use the standard Activation Instructions template as follows:

To activate this product open the Third Party Add-On Activation Wizard in LabVIEW through Help > Activate Add-ons.  Follow the on-screen instructions.  When prompted use the provided License ID and Password in the appropriate fields and click Activate.

If you do not use Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit for licensing your product, or you have an activation procedure that is different from above, please include these instructions in the marketing submission process.  You may use the above text as a guide.