Get started with Adobe Creative Cloud

Before you can start using the Adobe Creative Cloud pages, the inventory sources for Adobe Creative Cloud listed in Prerequisites must be installed and configured. The inventory sources populate the pages with data on licenses, users, applications, and activity.

When the inventory sources have been installed, you can start adding cost periods and link Adobe Creative Cloud users to Snow inventoried users. This is to get accurate statistics and insights into the Adobe Creative Cloud pages.

• Add cost periods

  Information imported from the Adobe Creative Cloud portal only contains the total number of licenses and the number of licenses that have been assigned to users. There is no information about the costs for the Adobe Creative Cloud licenses in the portal, so the cost periods must be added manually.

  See Manage cost periods in Adobe Creative Cloud on how to add, edit and delete cost periods on the Cost page.

• Link users

  To automatically detect license coverage of applications, users gathered from the inventory sources must be linked to the Adobe Creative Cloud portal users. The usage of on-premises applications can then be connected to the corresponding user and license.

  Users are linked during the import of the Adobe Creative Cloud connector by matching the email addresses of Snow License Manager users with the Adobe user names from the Adobe Creative Cloud Portal. If a match is found, the user is linked. When no match is found, the user remains unlinked. To see users that are not linked, go to the Link users page.

  See Manage user linking in Adobe Creative Cloud on how to improve automatic linking and manually link users.