Access a Run edition licence

Flood Modeller's Run edition licences provide various benefits, including:

1. Run simulations (within or outside of the user interface) on models larger than your Flood Modeller edition allows
2. Allow additional users to run models outside of the interface (e.g. using the API), leaving your full licence(s) free for those building and editing models
3. Ability to scale up the number of available concurrent simulations for compute intensive projects

Your Run licence can be used within the Flood Modeller interface, or outside the Flood Modeller interface. Both methods are described below.

Use a Run licence within the interface

To use a Run licence within the Flood Modeller user interface:

1. Install Flood Modeller 6.2 or later
2. Completely close Flood Modeller
3. Locate your formsed.ini file. By default, this is located here: C:\Users\[your_username]\AppData\Roaming\Flood Modeller
4. Open the formsed.ini file within a text editor
5. Navigate to the [Preferences] section
6. Add the following lines within this section; these lines can be added anywhere within the [Preferences] block:
   PREFERREDDONGLETYPE = RUNONLY
   THISDONGLETYPEONLY = 0
7. Save and close formsed.ini file
8. Ensure you have access to the server where the Run licence is located
9. Open Flood Modeller and run the simulation.

Use a Run licence outside of the interface

To use a Run licence outside of the Flood Modeller user interface (for example, when running models with the Flood Modeller API or the command line):

1. Install Flood Modeller 6.2 or later
2. Ensure you have access to the server where the Run licence is located
3. Run your simulation as usual. The Run licence will automatically be searched for as your preferred licence type

If you find the Run licence is not taken as preference, you have previously added a preferred dongle type to your configuration (formsed.ini) file. This will override the default setting to use this licence as preference when running outside of the interface. 

To resolve this, remove any lines in your formsed.ini starting PREFERREDDONGLETYPE and THISDONGLETYPEONLY.