Out of Installs?

[Daniel Messina]

Hi Guys,

Our Events Calendar Pro and iCal Importer plugins for multisite look to be good until July 7, 2017 but when I try to activate them, the Events Calendar Pro gives me a message that we are out of installs. Can I get some help with that? See the attached image.

Thanks,

Mike

[Brook]

Howdy mchildress,

I would love to help you with this.

That license key will only activate once, but when it does it activates for the entire network. The URL to activate the license for the network is: http://example.com/wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=tribe-common&tab=licenses

If you are trying to input this license on a different page, such as within a subsite of the network or on a new network then it will generate an error that the license is out of installs.

What exactly are you trying to do when you get this error? Are you trying to activate a new network, maybe you want to deactivate the old one and transfer the license?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Daniel Messina]

Hi Brook. Ok, that makes sense. In our environment here is what happens: We have a production environment with the events calendar pro plugin (and soon the iCal importer) activated on a multisite level. Then, when we perform upgrades, we mirror it back to a multisite test environment. So it follows that the license is still attached and moves to the test environment. We need to test updates, upgrades, etc., prior to updating production. What do you suggest as a workaround?

Thanks for your input!

Mike

[Brook]

Howdy again Mike,

That makes sense. And you are in the clear, we do expressly support have a dev/staging site alongside production and it’s all legally covered by one license. See Tutorial: Using one license for your live and dev sites.

As that tutorial says basically all you forgo is automated updates when you are using one license on multiple sites like that. If you are doing automatic updates from the production URL, then I would activate it there and deactivate the live. Or, if you are not doing automatic updates (Manually Updating plugins) at all I would honestly just skip inputting a license key anywhere. The only thing they help with is automatic updates. Your plugin will behave fine and should not alert you when it’s run without a license key.

Would one of those options work?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Daniel Messina]

Thanks Brook! Yes, we manually update so I just remove the licensing on my dev environment once production gets mirrored back to dev. Seems to work fine. Thank you for the help. -Mike

[Brook]

Excellent! I am happy that solution worked.

Cheers!

– Brook

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