How to activate new license from an activation code?

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1

So,
My employer purchased a Desktop license and received a 15-letter “activation code”, thru Application Systems Heidelberg (ASH).
He sent me that code, I then signed up on xojo.com with my email and am now trying to activate my license so that I can build Xojo apps.

But I can’t figure out how to activate the license.

The page at https://ide.xojo.com/account/licenses/ shows just a link like this:

Real Studio License Keys
Need an 8 digit code? Click here.

And when I follow that link, I get to a page that tells me that I would get to see a dialog asking me to enter code when I launch the IDE. But those instructions appear to be for Real Studio, which has been cancelled in 2012!

The User Manual says that I have to login with the account that the code was purchased with. But when purchasing from ASH, no such account creation was even necessary! So, I have no account, only the activation code, and no indication how to use it. Instead, the Xojo license page shows super outdated information?!?

2

Found it: https://xojo.com/redeem/

Jeez, why could that not be linked to from the License page where one would expect to find it?

3

THE Thomas Tempelmann trying to figure out how to build Xojo apps ???
come on …
:slight_smile:

4

No, this is totally obscure method. 6 years ago, it tooks me… 8 weeks ? to figure a solution !
Less than 5 minutes to pay and an eternity + 1 tobe able to use it :frowning:

The lessons learned with the Alpha, Beta, Teta (no, no Teta) was lost once the product released.

I still recall.

5

Well, usually you get the link with the activation code…