Aggregations management

First, make sure that you are an admin and that you are working on the good scope :

What is an aggregation ?

This is a group of several products, covered by the same license. When a product is used on different equipments with different versions, we can create an aggregation with this set of products if a same license covers all of these versions.

Access

You can access to "Aggregations management" by clicking here :

Then this page will shown:

You have to click on "Aggregations" to access to aggregations management.

Presentation

The presentation table is :

You can see :
- SKU: The indentifier of the aggregation - Aggregation name : The name of the aggregation
- Products : The list of the products in the aggregation
- Editor : The editor of the products in the aggregation
- Metric Name : The metrics of the products in the aggregation
- Number of SWIDTags : The number of SWIDTags in the aggregation
- Acquired Licenses: The number of acquired licenses
- Unit price: The price of one acquired license

Possibilities

You can do 3 things from there :
- Add a new aggregation (here)
- Edit an existing aggregation (here)
- Delete an existing aggregation (here)

When many switags of the aggregation reference the same product, this product is diplayed only once.

Add a new aggregation

You have to click on "Add aggregation" :

This window will be shown :

You can see these different fields :
- Aggregation name : The name of the new aggregation
- SKU: The identifier of the aggregation - Ordering date: The date of the contract order - Corporate sourcing contract : The name of the corporate which sources the contract - Software provider : The name of software provider - Editor : Select the editor on which you want to create an aggregation
- Metrics : Select the metric on which you want to create an aggregation
- Product : Select the products on which you want to create an aggregation

Once you have filled the Aggregation name, the SKU and the informations about the contract if applicable as shown below :

Once it's done, you can click on "Next" to move to products or navigate with the 5 categories in the navigation bar

There, you will have to fill editor and metrics fields of the aggregation as shown below :

You are able to choose the products that you want to add to your aggregation by SWIDTags.

All products choosen will be add at the left, in the green box.
To add definitively the products to the aggregation, click on the green button(plus) of each products.

After that you can see the all the products at the right, in the blue box.

You can remove a product of the aggregation by clicking on the red button(minus).

Once it's done, you can click on "Next" to move to acquired licenses or navigate with the 5 categories in the navigation bar

The next screen is :

You will have to fill in the fields (mandatory) :
1. Number of licenses acquired : The number of licenses acquired for the product with this acquired right
2. Unit price : The unit price for each licenses acquired for the product with this acquired right

Then you can click on "Next" to continue or "Back" to modify the fields of the first step or navigate with the navigation bar.
If you don't have any maintenance data or comment to add, you can click on "Create" to create the Acquired Rights Aggregation.

The next screen is :

You will have to fill in the fields (if needed, not mandatory) :
1. Number of licenses under maintenance : The number of licenses that are under this maintenance during this period
2. Maintenance unit price : The price of each license under maintenance during this period
3. Start of maintenance : The date when the maintenance starts
4. End of maintenance : The date when the maintenance ends
If you don't enter the number of licenses under maintenance, you could not enter the start date and the end date of the maintenance.

Then you can click on "Next" to continue or "Back" to modify the fields of the first 2 steps or navigate with the navigation bar.
If you don't have any comment to add, you can click on "Create" to create the Acquired Right Aggregation.

The next screen is :

You will have to fill in the field of the comment (if needed, not mandatory).

Then you can click on "Back" to modify the fields of the first 3 steps or navigate with the navigation bar.
When you are done, click on "Create" to create the new acquired rights aggregation.

Edit an existing aggregation

You have to click here to edit an existing aggregation :

This window will be shown :

You can change all the attributes except the aggregation name and the SKU.

Once it's done, you can click on "Update" and the aggregation will be updated !

Delete an existing aggregation

You have to click here to delete an existing aggregation :

This window will be shown :

You just have to click on "OK" to delete the aggregation !