Sidonie Monier

Of course.  You just deactivate through the help menu and activate with whatever licence you like as long as it's for the same version of Studio.  I imagine this is because you are using a Professional licence in the office and a FL at home?

Dear Paul

Thank you for your answer! I indeed use a Professional license as an employee for the translation agency and a FL license as a freelancer. So if I understood correctly what you said, every morning (when I start working for the translation agency), I'll have to deactivate my FL license and enter the activation key they'll have provided to me. And at night, when switching to my freelancer activity, I'll have to deactivate their Professional license and activate mine. And this everyday. Is that correct?

I simply want to be sure that there is no risk that, by switching between Professional and FL license like this everyday, there won't be a bug and make me unable to have access in the end to my FL license. Indeed, I'll do this switch everyday since I work on the translation agency's license during the day and, at night, I'll be using my FL license.

Thank you in advance for reassuring me on this point!

Sidonie Monier

Sidonie Monier said:

I simply want to be sure that there is no risk that, by switching between Professional and FL license like this everyday, there won't be a bug and make me unable to have access in the end to my FL license. I

Working like this should not be a problem in terms of the licence.  But keep in mind that if you work with features that are Professional only then when you switch back to Freelance you won't be able to use them anymore.

It might also be worth thinking about only working with the Professional licence and just don't return it.  Will that be a problem for the company you are working for?  If not it would save you the hassle and your Freelance licence will always be available for you should the need arise to use it in the future.

Sidonie Monier

Sidonie Monier said:

I simply want to be sure that there is no risk that, by switching between Professional and FL license like this everyday, there won't be a bug and make me unable to have access in the end to my FL license. I

Working like this should not be a problem in terms of the licence.  But keep in mind that if you work with features that are Professional only then when you switch back to Freelance you won't be able to use them anymore.

It might also be worth thinking about only working with the Professional licence and just don't return it.  Will that be a problem for the company you are working for?  If not it would save you the hassle and your Freelance licence will always be available for you should the need arise to use it in the future.

Dear Paul,

Thank you again for your useful feedback! Which features are available with the Professional license and not with the FL one please? Anyway, I understand that the features are specific to each license so, whatever the differences are between both, I'll only have access to those specific to the FL license when I use it and not to the Professional features.

Thanks for the suggestion fpr using the Professional license all the time, even as a Freelancer. That would be indeed very useful and logical but I doubt the translation agency would agree with this, plus I guess they could trace back my activity on their license, right? So, unfortunately, I prefer not to try but thanks anyway!!!

Sidonie Monier

Sidonie Monier said:

Which features are available with the Professional license and not with the FL one please?

• Perfect Match
• Unlimited languages
• Create Packages
• Works in a domain based network
• Publish projects to GroupShare
• Create custom batch tasks
• Setup TQA for use in a project

These would be the main things I think...

Sidonie Monier said:

plus I guess they could trace back my activity on their license, right?

Not really... they only know if the licence is in use or not.  So if they don't need to use it when you are not using it there seems to be little harm done.  More like a perk :-)