The Atlassian Community Forums are currently in read-only mode. We will be relaunching on a new platform on September 22 (read more here). We apologize for the extended downtime. For concerns or questions, please email communitymanagers@atlassian.com. See you on the other side, on the new Atlassian Community Forums! :)

×

Forums

Articles
Create
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Customer in an Organization Needs a License?

Sarah Kladstrup
Contributor
April 27, 2022

We are trying to set-up organizations inside of a Service Management project. However, when we attempt to add a customer (user in AD without any licenses), there is an error message, "This customer is inactive. You'll need to activate their account before you can invite them to the Service Desk." 

Can someone explain why this customer needs a license to share with others in an organization? The customer is only going to use the portal and the organization is only for sharing among groups of customers, is it now? What am I missing here?

2 answers

2 accepted

Comments for this post are closed

Community moderators have prevented the ability to post new answers.

3 votes
Answer accepted
Mark Segall
Community Champion
April 27, 2022

Hi @Sarah Kladstrup - From your description, my interpretation is that this user already has an account and is inactive.  They may have previously had a license, but you should be able to make the account active without having to apply a license.  Just make sure they're not a member of any of the jira-*-users groups (e.g. jira-servicemanagement-users). 

1 vote
Answer accepted
Jack Brickey
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Champions.
April 27, 2022

I suspect the customer exists already but is inactive. Go to settings > user management > Jira service management. Search for the customer and observe their status and enable if inactive. 

Sarah Kladstrup
Contributor
April 27, 2022

Thank you! You're right. This customer had 2 accounts with identical usernames, one of which was inactive.

TAGS
AUG Leaders

Atlassian Community Events