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Nov 11, 2020
Article updated February 23, 2021
Please note that as of April 15, 2021, Fusion Lifecycle users and assignments are moving to Autodesk Account. This means that a Fusion Lifecycle seat assignment will be managed using Autodesk Account rather than within Fusion Lifecycle administration experiences.
We have prepared the following questions and answers for customers to give you further information:
As a subscription offering from Autodesk, Autodesk Account is essential for Fusion Lifecycle to support the current and future subscription benefits offered through the platform. As an example, Autodesk Account provides seat usage reporting, allowing your Fusion Lifecycle administrators to monitor which users have activated their assigned products and the frequency of their use.
No, pricing is not altered as a result of this change.
No, the current products and their entitlements will remain the same.
No, the product offerings remain the same.
No, not at this time.
No pricing or packaging changes are being announced at this time.
No pricing or packaging changes are being announced at this time.
Autodesk will be updating Autodesk Account with your seat assignments from Fusion Lifecycle. This process will begin in April 2021 and continue until all customer accounts have been updated. You may be contacted by your reseller and/or Autodesk account representative to help with this transition. Once your seats have been transitioned to Autodesk Account, it is important to note that licenses will no longer be bound to a site, but instead to individual users. This means users with a valid license who are invited to multiple Fusion Lifecycle sites will be able to access these sites using the entitlements associated to their Autodesk ID assigned to them via Autodesk Account.
Users with an expired entitlement, including expired trials, will transition to 'Basic Access.' While in Basic Access, users will continue to have access to the same data; however, it will be limited to read-only access. Upon the user obtaining an active entitlement, she/he will once again gain their editing permissions that are assigned.
Autodesk will update subscriptions in Autodesk Account per your contract. Please note: Vault PLM seats are named user seats, meaning for a single license, the assignment of Vault and Fusion Lifecycle will be to the same user. As a result of this technology change, this will now be enforced.
Obtaining a trial site of Fusion Lifecycle will continue to use the same process as today. However, trials are now associated to the named user. Each named user will receive a 30-day trial, managed by the same technology as other trials of software at Autodesk. After 30 days the named user will transition to Basic Access unless they are entitled through an active subscription.
Integrations with other business solutions should be developed using 2-legged authentication and incorporate impersonation. If the implementation plan calls for a 'system user' to perform the automated operations, another license will be required for such activities. Basic Access does not support integration.
No, there is no expected downtime for your Fusion Lifecycle site during this transition. However, your Fusion Lifecycle administrator will be required to confirm licensing assignments within Autodesk Account before switching over.
Licensing is complimentary and compatible with SSO.
Fusion Lifecycle Sandbox will continue to be offered standalone for purchase and will also continue to be offered as an entitlement for Fusion Lifecycle Enterprise.
No.
Yes, this change does not affect the user interface and will not require moving to the 'Modern' interface.
No.
Fusion Lifecycle for third-party users will continue to be available for assignment to the third-party users of Fusion Lifecycle Enterprise customers. Your Autodesk reseller will place the order directly for you, just as other licenses for Fusion Lifecycle. Please note that assigned Fusion Lifecycle for third-party licenses will only work within Enterprise customer sites. For the Special Terms related to Fusion Lifecycle for third-party, you may visit this topic under the Terms of Use.
No, mixed mode licensing between Fusion Lifecycle Professional and Fusion Lifecycle Enterprise is not supported.
Yes, Autodesk Account provides seat usage reporting, allowing administrators to monitor which users have activated their assigned products and the frequency of their use. Please see this article for more information.
No.
Autodesk Account provides the ability for users with an expired entitlement to continue to access a Fusion Lifecycle site in a Basic Access mode. This includes users with an expired trial as well. This may be used to provide read-only access to Fusion Lifecycle data for users within your company that do not need to edit data or approve workflows.
For further information, please contact your Autodesk reseller.
If you need technical support, please contact Autodesk Product Support at https://knowledge.autodesk.com/contact-support or submit a support case via manage.autodesk.com.
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