Working in Teams

Learn how to effectively work with teams of people in Hamina Network Planner and Hamina Onsite.

Hamina Network Planner and Hamina Onsite include a variety of ways to make collaboration and teamwork super easy. You can collaborate as a team by:

• Using free Hamina Network Planner Lite accounts

• Moving licenses between users

• Sharing projects with other Hamina users

• Sharing online reports

For this to work well (and to conform to the Terms of Service, which you agree to when you make a Hamina Account), everyone needs to have their own, named user account.

Shared accounts, group accounts, and login sharing are not permitted per our Terms of Service. Each user must create a unique, named account.

Free Hamina Network Planner Lite

By default, all Hamina Accounts get access to Hamina Network Planner Lite for free.

Users with Hamina Network Planner and Hamina Network Planner Plus seats can create projects and designs, and then share the project with Hamina Network Planner Lite users for viewing. Lite users will be able to make some changes to the project.

Hamina Network Planner Lite users can create their own projects, too. They can upload maps, define the scope of the project, add notes, and share projects with other users (perhaps someone with a full Hamina Network Planner license who will do the design work).

If a Hamina Network Planner Lite user is creating their own design, they're limited to three access points (enough for a house or small business).

Moving Licenses Between Users

When someone buys a subscription to Hamina Network Planner, Hamina Network Planner Plus, or Hamina Onsite, they now have a license that they can either activate on their own account, or share with someone else for activation. All of the details about how to do it are at Volume License Keys.

When a license is activated, it is locked to the account for 90 days. After 90 days, it can be revoked from the account, and someone else can activate it. Release a License will show you how it's done.

You can use this to move licenses around people join and leave your team. You can also keep a small pool of licenses, and rotate them around through people on your team as needed.

Sharing Projects

There are three ways to share projects with other Hamina users:

• Individually, by typing in Hamina Accounts that you want to share the account with. See Share a Project for details.

• To a group of users, by creating a Team, and then sharing the project with the Team. See Teams to learn all about it.

• By creating a link + password, and placing it where everyone can access it. Check out Share a Project to learn about link sharing.

Keep in mind that sharing projects works with anyone, whether they have a paid license or not. They just need to have a Hamina Account.

There's one caveat to this: site survey results. If you've done a site survey, and share the project with someone, they'll need either a Hamina Network Planner, Hamina Network Planner Plus, or Hamina Onsite license to see the survey results. If you need to share site survey results with someone who doesn't have a paid license, simply share an Online Report instead. It's almost the exact same thing.

Sharing Online Reports

If you want to share a project with someone, but don't want them to be able to edit anything, or if they simply cannot be bothered to make a Hamina Account, then Online Reports are the solution! They're basically a read-only copy of the project that you can customize for the viewer.

To share them, you only need to send a link (plus a password if you want to make sure nobody else can get into it). See Sharing Online Reports for details.