Changes to user membership and terminology in Tekla online services

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To prepare for unifying user and license management systems across different Trimble products, changes to how users belong to organizations will take effect on February 14, 2026. These changes do not require any action from you, but will affect how you manage access rights for employees in your organization in the future.

All existing employees in your organization will retain their current access rights and roles for Tekla products. If you add new users after February 14, 2026, you must select the employee role for them when you invite them in the Tekla Online Admin Tool. The employee role is required for users to be able to access the organization's content in Tekla Warehouse and to share the models that belong to the organization in Tekla Model Sharing.

Changes to terminology

For consistency between different systems, terminology related to users and licensing will also change in these Tekla online services on February 14, 2026:

  • Tekla Online Admin Tool
  • Tekla Warehouse
  • Online Profile for Tekla products (account.tekla.com)
Previous termNew term
OrganizationAccount
External license userMember

The term "employee" does not change, but will now refer to a role that is assigned to users rather than organizational membership.

The account where a user has the employee role is the user’s home account

Changes to user membership

How users belong to your organization, now referred to as an account, will change:

  • Both employees and external license users will be members of the account.
  • Employees are members of the account who have the additional employee role.
  • A user can be a member in multiple accounts, but an employee in only one account.
  • Each user can only have one home account. Joining a different home account removes the employee role in the previous home account, but the user remains a member of that account.
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