[DOCS] Clarify trial subscription levels #70636
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| If you want to try out the full set of platinum features, you can activate a | ||
| 30-day trial license. To view the | ||
| status of your license, start a trial, or install a new license, open the menu, then go to *Stack Management > {es} > License Management*. | ||
| If you want to try out the full set of features, you can activate a 30-day trial. |
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We can reinforce that our trial is free with something like you can activate a 30-day trial for free (or free trial).
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| NOTE: You can start a trial only if your cluster has not already activated a | ||
| trial license for the current major product version. For example, if you have | ||
| already activated a trial for 6.0, you cannot start a new trial until | ||
| 7.0. You can, however, contact `info@elastic.co` to request an extended trial | ||
| license. | ||
| 7.0. You can, however, contact `info@elastic.co` to request an extended trial. |
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We could link to https://www.elastic.co/trialextension instead of the email address.
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| the basic license, refer to https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions[the subscription page]. | ||
| When you install the default distribution of {kib}, you receive free features | ||
| with no expiration date. For the full list of features, refer to | ||
| {subscriptions}. |
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Is this rendered as "refer to subscriptions"? Personally, I think "refer to the subscriptions page" sounds clearer.
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It resolves to the URL (i.e. "refer to https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions"). We don't have style guidelines for using URLs vs titles, but I tend to like using the URL for "external" links like that.
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Cool, thanks for explaining!
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| NOTE: You can start a trial only if your cluster has not already activated a | ||
| trial license for the current major product version. For example, if you have | ||
| already activated a trial for 6.0, you cannot start a new trial until | ||
| 7.0. You can, however, contact `info@elastic.co` to request an extended trial | ||
| license. | ||
| 7.0. You can, however, request an extended trial at {extendtrial}. | ||
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| When you activate a new license level, new features appear in *Stack Management*. | ||
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Does this image need to be updated?
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Yup, good call. I'll update it after #70900 is merged.
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Summary
This PR fixes the documentation that implies a trial licence maps to a platinum subscription. It also improves some licence-related text to align with the style guide.
Depends on elastic/docs#1886
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https://kibana_70636.docs-preview.app.elstc.co/guide/en/kibana/master/managing-licenses.html