Everyone who uses Shared Web Licensing needs a user account in the Ansys ID Portal for your company.

1. Sign in to the Ansys ID Portal with your Ansys account. The Users page lists everyone who already has an account.
2. Click + Add in the upper right.
3. Enter the user's email address and select the Member role. The email address must be the one on their Ansys account.
   
   Note: To add multiple users at once, select the Import Users tab ➜ load the Excel or CSV template ➜ and fill in one user per row.
   
   
4. Click Add. If you're importing multiple users, select your filled-in template, then click Upload.
5. Check that the new users are listed on the Users page. Every user can now use any of your Shared Web licenses.
   
   Note: Skip to step 3 unless you want to create groups that will limit some licenses to certain users.

Groups let you keep licenses for certain users. Without groups, any user can use any available Shared Web license.

For example, if you have CFD Premium and Mechanical Enterprise licenses, you can create a CFD group and a Mechanical group, then assign each group its own licenses.

2.1 Create / Manage a Group

1. In the Ansys ID Portal, click Groups in the left menu.
2. Click Add Group in the upper right.
3. Enter a name and description, select General as the group type, and click Add. (Ansys no longer supports the Private type.)
4. To remove a group later, click the … next to it on the Groups page, then click Remove Group.

2.2 Add / Remove a User from a Group

1. On the Groups page, click the group's name.
2. Select the Member tab.
3. To add users, click Add, select the users, and click Add.
4. To remove users, check the box next to each one and click Remove. To remove one user, click the … next to them, then Remove User From Group.

2.3 Assign / Manage Group License Entitlements

When you assign licenses to a group, only that group's users can use them. This is useful when a group must always have a license available, or when one department pays for a specialty license.

1. Sign in to the Ansys Licensing Portal.
2. In the left menu, click Assignments, then Groups, and select the group.
3. In the Assigned Licenses column, click the pencil icon.
4. Change the number of licenses assigned to the group, then click Save.

1. On each computer that runs Ansys, follow the Shared Web License Server tab in HOW TO - Specify an Ansys License Server.
2. Open the Licensing Settings utility and check that it lists the products available to the user. When it does, Shared Web Licensing is set up.