Hi, Nicolas.

Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologize for the delayed response as we have been experiencing an unusually high number of tickets. I am sorry that it has taken longer than usual to respond to your concern and your patience is highly appreciated.

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On a Dev/Staging site, and on your local machine testing,

you are not obligate to activate the licence.

We only recommend to activate the licence on the production/live version of the site.

Also, if you use sub-sites for staging, you can activate an unlimited number of subsites if they are on same domain.

You will also be able to migrate the plugin and you can also switch the domain of licence activation at any moment.

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We will advise in more details about migrating from Staging to Live, and vice-versa.

When you are moving on live site from local or stage site (or vice-versa) we can suggest using Plugin Duplicator. We use it and it's working fine because it will transfer all the files and also the tables to the database. 

Other than cloning the site, another option would be to copy all database tables (wp_wpdatatable_#) along with tables wp_wpdatatables, wp_wpdatacharts, wp_wpdatatables_rows and wp_wpdatatables_columns. Then, in wp_options table, you would also need to export the following option_names:

• wdtPreventDeletingTables
• wdtUseSeparateCon
• wdtSeparateCon
• wdtTimepickerRange
• wdtTimeFormat
• wdtTabletWidth
• wdtTablesPerPage
• wdtSumFunctionsLabel
• wdtRenderFilter
• wdtRenderCharts
• wdtIncludeBootstrap
• wdtIncludeBootstrapBackEnd
• wdtPreventDeletingTables
• wdtParseShortcodes
• wdtNumbersAlign
• wdtBorderRemoval
• wdtBorderRemovalHeader
• wdtNumberFormat
• wdtMobileWidth
• wdtMinifiedJs
• wdtMinFunctionsLabel
• wdtMaxFunctionsLabel
• wdtLeftOffset
• wdtTopOffset
• wdtInterfaceLanguage
• wdtGeneratedTablesCount
• wdtFontColorSettings
• wdtDecimalPlaces
• wdtCSVDelimiter
• wdtDateFormat
• wdtCustomJs
• wdtCustomCss
• wdtBaseSkin
• wdtAvgFunctionsLabel
• wdtInstallDate
• wdtRatingDiv
• wdtMDNewsDiv
• wdtTempFutureDate

It is rather cumbersome to do all this, but unfortunately at the moment, it's the only way. 

Important to note, for tables linked to an existing data source, you would need to change the file path, because at the moment the file path depends on the domain, so if you change the domain, the URL to the file will also have to be changed.

Our developers will be working on adding an easier solution to export everything, but we can't say an ETA on this.

- There are also certain export functionalities, to export individual tables using Table Tools.

- If you also need to switch domains;

 In our store you can go to "My Licenses" and click on the "Manage Domains" button:

From there, you will be able to deactivate the old domain (while it's still active), and then simply activate the new domain in wpDataTables settings/Activation, once you move the site.

Another easy option when you need to deactivate/activate licence is in the main plugin settings,

on the "old site" you can simply hit "disable licence" button on it;

then in the "new site" you can activate the Purchase Code in Activation settings; and that should work as well.

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Let us know if that helps and if you have any questions. Thanks.

Hi, Nicolas.

First my apologies for the waiting time.

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I see from your screenshot that you actually do not have the full wpDatatables version installed here,

you have the Lite/free plugin version.

You can manually have the premium plugin version installed without having to activate the licence, for staging/testing and for local installations of WordPress.

If you don't see the Activation Tab in the main plugin settings, it means that you have the Lite plugin version installed.

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Please follow the steps explained here, 

it is a step-by-step explanation of how you can safely remove the Lite version and install + activate the Full version.

Let us know how it goes and if you have any questions.