Installing a temporary license

If you do not have the required licenses you may be able to try out the software for a limited time.

The options are:

  • Create a 48-hour license for Trimble Access if you are not able to sign in and use your subscription or if you have purchased a perpetual license but it has not yet been assigned to your controller.
  • Create a 30-day Demonstration license for Trimble Access if the controller does not have a current perpetual license. This type of temporary license is available on supported Windows and Android controllers.
  • Create a 30-day Trial license for specific Trimble Access apps if the controller has a current perpetual license, but no license for the specific app you want to try. This type of temporary license is available only on supported Windows controllers.

The 48 hour license enables you to keep working when:

  • your subscription license is locked to another controller, or when you haven't locked your subscription to your current controller and you are now on-site without an Internet connection.

  • your perpetual license has not yet been assigned to your controller and you need to get started on-site.

To install a 48-hour license:

  1. If Trimble Access is not yet installed on the controller, use Trimble Installation Manager to install Trimble Access and select the Trimble Access apps you want to install.

  2. Run Trimble Access for the first time.

  3. Tap at the top of the Projects screen to open the Sign in screen and then tap Help, I can't sign in! at the bottom right of the Sign in screen to activate a 48 hour license.

All installed Trimble Access apps will run with full functionality for 48 hours. To continue working beyond that period, you must sign in with your usual Trimble Access subscription or run Trimble Installation Manager and install a perpetual license within the 48 hour license period. You can check the number of remaining hours in the About screen in Trimble Access.

If your controller does not have a current perpetual license, you can create a temporary demonstration license for Trimble Access.

Demonstration licenses enable you to use the Trimble Access General Survey app, as well as additional Trimble Access apps such as: Roads, Pipelines, Tunnels, Mines, and Power Line.

The purpose of a demonstration license is to trial the software on a Windows or Android device for evaluation. A full Trimble Access license must be purchased for production work.

Demonstration licenses are limited to adding 30 points per job, however large jobs created elsewhere can be opened and reviewed. Demonstration licenses allow connections to GNSS receivers and total stations for the first 30 days. After 30 days you can only emulate a total station survey using a manual instrument (Windows and Android), and emulate a GNSS survey (Windows only).

  1. In Trimble Installation Manager, make sure Trimble Access is selected in the product bar.

    A message advising the controller is not licensed for Trimble Access appears.

    If the device is licensed for other products, you may need to select Show all in the product bar to see this message.

  2. Select the Create demo licenses tab, if it is not already selected.

  3. Tap Sign in and then sign in using your Trimble ID.

    When you have signed in, a Trimble Access license is automatically created.

  4. Select the Install updates tab and install the software.

Once you have purchased a perpetual license or a subscription, run Trimble Installation Manager again to uninstall the demonstration software and install the full software version:

  1. In Trimble Installation Manager, select the Install updates tab.

  2. If you have purchased a subscription, select the Convert Trimble Access Demo to Subscription check box.

  3. Click Install.

  4. Trimble Installation Manager offers to uninstall the software before installing the purchased version. Click Accept.

    If you choose not to uninstall the software, then the applications remain installed on the device, but cannot be used.

    The demonstration software components are uninstalled.

  5. Run Trimble Installation Manager again.

  6. In Trimble Installation Manager, select the Install updates tab.

  7. Select the components to install.

  8. Click Install.

If the controller has a current Trimble Access (General Survey) perpetual license, you can use the Try software tab to create a temporary license to for supporting applications or trial software that can be installed to the connected device.

Supporting applications are applications that might install onto a desktop computer to support software that is installed on a device.

Trial software are additional Trimble Access apps that you would like to try for 30 days. Trial software licenses typically expire after 30 days.

Trial versions of select Trimble Access applications are fully-functional and can be installed only once per device. The length of the trial period for the software is shown in Trimble Installation Manager for Windows.

  1. Start Trimble Installation Manager for Windows.

  2. Make sure Trimble Access is selected in the product bar.

  3. Select the Try software tab.
  4. Select the appropriate check box(es) and then tap Create license.

  5. Tap Sign in and then sign in using your Trimble ID.

    When you have signed in, The Trimble Installation Manager window switches to the Install updates tab and shows the software available to install, including the software you just selected.

  6. Tap Install.