Required and Excluded Services

activate also has the ability to define required and excluded services for each service required services required services are services that are required by the selected service for example, an rsa token may be required by the vpn service if the user does not already have the required service (in this case the rsa token) then when the service is added to the cart the required service will be automatically added for the user excluded services excluded services allows administrators to limit combinations of services for example, the user may only be able to have one of two services each service is set up as an excluded service for the other service if the user attempts to order a service but they already have only of the excluded services when they will get an error and not be able to order the service without first removing the excluded services configuration required and excluded services are configured as references on the source service the parameter names are 'requiredservice' and 'excludedservice' these parameters should be of type 'reference' or 'service reference' and point to the selected service note open activate studio navigate to the desired service right click in the 'parameter' pane and select 'new parameter' rename the parameter to 'requiredservice' or 'excludedservice' change the parameter type to 'reference' change the value to point to another service