topic ArcGIS Portal -Creator Licenses for basic whiteboard functionality in ArcGIS Enterprise Portal Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/arcgis-portal-creator-licenses-for-basic/m-p/314014#M4247 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We have migrated to ArcGIS Portal to enable Active Directory Authentication.&nbsp; The issue i am having is that we use basic whiteboard tools that allow us to create basic features on a map and have been doing so for the past 10 years.&nbsp; This gives us the ability to save features in SQL and host the data on the viewer.&nbsp; The problem i am facing now is that when using portal it forces me to make those a named user/creator to make changes.&nbsp; This is a huge problem for my business as we need many licenses for something that is so basic and elementary to any project web viewer.&nbsp; We are not using these license for Collector apps or anything field related.&nbsp; For that i would understand the higher cost per license, but for something so basic I am confused.&nbsp; Is there something i am overlooking?&nbsp; I am obviously not going to be unethical and create 1 creator user id and pass that identity on through internal sites, but surely this wasn't ESRI's intentions.&nbsp; Can someone please assist if they know a better way of doing this while remaining completely compliant?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:28:02 GMT GarrettMcBride 2020-03-05T17:28:02Z ArcGIS Portal -Creator Licenses for basic whiteboard functionality https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/arcgis-portal-creator-licenses-for-basic/m-p/314014#M4247 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We have migrated to ArcGIS Portal to enable Active Directory Authentication.&nbsp; The issue i am having is that we use basic whiteboard tools that allow us to create basic features on a map and have been doing so for the past 10 years.&nbsp; This gives us the ability to save features in SQL and host the data on the viewer.&nbsp; The problem i am facing now is that when using portal it forces me to make those a named user/creator to make changes.&nbsp; This is a huge problem for my business as we need many licenses for something that is so basic and elementary to any project web viewer.&nbsp; We are not using these license for Collector apps or anything field related.&nbsp; For that i would understand the higher cost per license, but for something so basic I am confused.&nbsp; Is there something i am overlooking?&nbsp; I am obviously not going to be unethical and create 1 creator user id and pass that identity on through internal sites, but surely this wasn't ESRI's intentions.&nbsp; Can someone please assist if they know a better way of doing this while remaining completely compliant?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:28:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/arcgis-portal-creator-licenses-for-basic/m-p/314014#M4247 GarrettMcBride 2020-03-05T17:28:02Z