[00:00] In this lesson, we're going to learn about the trial timer. If you don't have a license applied to your gateway, the gateway will be in what's known as trial mode, a free two hour trial. During this two hour trial period, the full functionality of Ignition is available. You can create projects, connect to databases, create reports, and launch your clients. Anything is possible with ignition during the trial period. When that two hour trial period ends, there are certain things that will stop working within the gateway. Your device connections will stop pulling tag data from your PLCs. You will be unable to launch vision clients and perspective sessions. You'll be unable to execute reports among a few other things. However, we still allow you to launch a designer and create a project. If you want to see your project in action and launch it in say, a client or session, then you will need to reset the trial. When you reset the trial timer, that timer gets reset back two hours where you can continue to play around with the full functionality of Ignition. Resetting your trial is very simple, and it all starts here in the gateway webpage.

[01:16] You'll notice towards the bottom we have our trial banner and my trial is currently expired. To reset my trial, I need to log into my gateway, and you can do so by clicking on this login button in the banner. I'll pass in my credentials here, and once I've logged in, you'll notice in the banner there is a reset trial button. Clicking that will add two hours back to that trial timer. Now, I can add a license to my gateway here in this licensing page. When I activate a license on the gateway all modules that are installed are now licensed. The trial timer will go away because there is a license applied. However, it is possible to have a license applied and still have a trial timer.

[02:04] Let me apply a license really quick. You'll notice my license now has been applied, but I still have the trial timer, but this time it says license incomplete. In this case, I do have a license applied to my gateway, but it does not license every single module that I have installed, and so that module is technically still in trial mode. I can see which modules are still in trial mode by clicking on this view modules button on the right of the trial banner. It's going to take me to my modules page where I can see that my voice notification and SFC modules are still in a trial. In this case, when the trial timer ends, only these unlicensed modules will stop working. I will no longer be able to use voice notifications or SFCs, but everything else in the gateway will continue to work because they're fully licensed.