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Reasons for Inventory Blocking
Why is it necessary to block inventory?
Because When your inventory is rarely not clearly defined distinctly and unique, it is may be necessary to block some inventory if others have already been sold. This might could be fordue to
physical reasons, such as the overlapping inventory items overlapping or ,
even political that reasons, where certain slots will not sell if others have already been taken.
Here is a print example: You For example, if you have the option to sell a page in your periodical as either in two half pages or one whole page. Having sold , selling one or the other to a customer would restrict limit your available offers.
To do so block inventory, use the ADvendio's "blocking inventory" objects and related lists.
Types of blocking
ADvendio can manage the following blocking types:
Placements,
AdTypes,
AdSpecs, or
Content
Doing so is easy and it works the same for all three objects.
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To create Blocked Placements/AdTypes/AdSpec/Content Records, follow these steps:
From Navigate to the app , and select either "Blocked Placements," "Blocked AdTypes," "Blocked AdSpecs," or "Blocked Content."
In the new window, add the following details:
Master Placements/AdSpec/AdTypes/Content
Blocked Placements/AdSpec/AdTypes/Content
Blocking Factor
Save your changes.
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Simply add the related list to your page layout and define which record blocks which.
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way using master and dependent records or create two records if they both block each other. |
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Important InformationIf you are using one of the three Blocking Types make sure that you have your booking calendar template set to show exactly that field:
name otherwise the blocking is not marked correctly on the calendar. Here is Find how to : 7.2.4 Setup Booking Calendar. |
Create Blocked Content Records
Click on the new button to create a new record and enter
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a master (preselected) and
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a blocked placement and
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Blocking Factor
Constant Quantity = Quantity (The constant quantity is equal to the quantity).
Rounding
Rounds always to an Integer Always round to the nearest integer using the following rules - guidelines:
Value | round | Value | Example |
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Booked | up | 0,000001 | 1 |
Offered | up | 0,000001 | 1 |
available | down | 0,000001 | 0 |
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