Software Licenses

You can purchase a Trimble Perspective software license as a perpetual license that is licensed to a controller or as a subscription license that is assigned to an individual user. A perpetual license works perpetually (there is no expiry date). A subscription license will stop working after the expiry date.

To view the license information installed on the controller, tap Menu >  About to open the box.

• PERPETUAL LICENSE: A perpetual license is permanent with no expiry date. No renewals are required and you do not have to sign in with your TID to use the license.

  

• SUBSCRIPTION LICENSE: Sign in with your TID to use your subscription license. See Sign In and Sign out Using Your TID Account.

  When your subscription is still valid:

  

  When your subscription license has expired, and it is not renewed or updated by the specific renewal date, it enters a five-day grace period (called Renewal).

  

  Once the Renewal period has expired, your subscription license enters a two-day emergency period (called Temporary). See Temporary License.

  

  Once the two periods have expired, Perspective can no longer operate until you renew your license or purchase a new one.

  Notifications that appear when your subscription license:

  • Expires soon (less than 30 days).

    

  • Enters the Renewal period.

    

  • Enters the Temporary period. See Temporary License.

    

  Warnings that appear when your subscription license:

  • Is locked on a device, and you want to use it on any other device:

    

  • And the Renewal period has expired:

    

  • And the Renewal and Temporary periods have expired:

    

• TEMPORARY LICENSE: Occasionally you may not be able to sign in to use your Trimble Perspective subscription. This can happen if your subscription has lapsed, or is locked to another controller. In this case, you can create a 48-hour license to use until you can renew your subscription, or login in with a valid license, or unlock your subscription from the other controller.

  To create a 48-hour license, click the "Activate a temporary Trimble Perspective license" link. In the Temporary License dialog, click Start.

  

  You can be off line (no Internet) to activate a temporary Trimble Perspective license.

• WARRANTY: Every Trimble Perspective software must be licensed in order for you to install and operate the software. A Trimble Perspective license comes with a warranty and an expiry date which is the last day of service, meaning that the warranty and the license will expire after that expiry date. New improved versions of the software require a valid warranty. If the software warranty has expired, you can continue to operate the software. The software warranty expiry date is shown only if you have a perpetual software license. If you have a subscription, you can install new, improved versions of the software as long as the subscription is valid.

  After every restart of Perspective, a notification is displayed informing about the warranty expiry date.

  • Is close to expiry (less than one month).

    

  • Has expired.

    

  To not display the notification, tap the "Do Not Remind for ..." link.

  The warranty expiry date is displayed in the About box. Tap Menu >  About to open the box.