Licenses: Overview

The License tab is the most important part of the Supertab Connect dashboard. This is where you define what AI systems are and aren't allowed to do with your content. Everything you configure here gets compiled into your license.xml file, which compliant crawlers read to understand your terms.

The page has three columns. Understanding what each one does will make everything else in this tab click.

Left panel: Sections

The left panel is your structural overview. At the top you'll see your website name, and below it your license.xml entry, which tells you how many sections, licenses, and deployment methods are configured.

Below that is the Sections list. A section is a key concept in Supertab Connect — it defines a scope of content that you want to apply licensing terms to. For example, a section covering /* is a wildcard that means every page on the site.

A section can be a specific page, a directory, or a wildcard pattern. Sections exist because you might want different rules for different parts of your site — maybe your news articles have one set of terms, your archive has another, and your homepage is unrestricted. Each gets its own section.

Use + Add Section to create additional scopes.

Centre panel: Section Settings & Licenses

The centre panel is the editor for whichever section is currently selected.

Section Settings, at the top, is where you set the URL pattern for the selected section (for example /* to cover the whole site). This section also includes four optional metadata fields — Last Modified, Alternates, Copyright & Terms, and Schema.
Licenses, below Section Settings, is where the actual licensing rules live. Each section can have one or more licenses attached — for example, a free tier that permits search, and a paid tier that permits AI training under commercial terms. Use + Add License to add another license to the same section.

Right panel: Preview & Publish

This is where your work becomes real.

Version tracking at the top shows your last verified live version and the version you're currently working on. Nothing goes live until you hit Save, so you can make changes and review them first.
History — a link to a log of previous versions, so you can see what changed between versions and roll back if needed.
Last Status — shows whether your live license.xml is Verified, meaning it's been checked and confirmed accessible at your domain.
Live Preview — a preview of the XML that will be generated from your current configuration. You don't need to read or write this XML yourself, but it's useful to glance at when you want to confirm your settings are translating correctly. You can copy the full XML from here too.
Save — publishes your new version once you're happy with your changes.