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How to configure your Inventory for this feature?
In order to To use this feature, you will need to do some configuration on your inventory. You will need to set, how many units are available for sale, how long a typical booking goes (per day, per week, per month) and also which further fields are relevant for calculation. These settings will be done on the Ad Price object.
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7.2.7.5 Use Cases for the Booking Calendar
In order to To make sure your Campaign Items will use the check availability for exclusive products feature, the checkbox Exclusive is set to true. This is especially important if you want to use this for digital products, which normally would use the Check Availability from the AdServer, without these settings. For all other cases, we prepared a Workflow Rule in ADvendio, to set the required fields. You can of course also deactivate this rule and apply your own logic, if needed for specific use cases.
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Navigate to the Media Campaigns related list Related List of all Campaign Items.
Select the items you would like to test the availability for.
Click on the Check Availability Button.
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Once the process is done, you'll see for each item, if they are available or not. You can also click on the Item name, to expand the view and see more details, like an exact number of available units or contending items.
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Hit the Back button to return to the campaign. If you also have digital items selected the process proceeds as described in 4.4.1 Check AdServer Availabilities.
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No Maximum Applicability Unit If your inventory does not have a Maximum Applicability Unit entered the Exclusivity Check will take the unit Day as default. |
Contending Items
As soon as the Availability Check starts the system checks for contending items.
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In cases of Exception: Campaign Item Exclusive check box |
is overriding other availability settings, even if it is different to the data in Ad Price check box. For example, if both Adserver availability and exclusive availability are presented, the system will perform an exclusive check, not an Possible scenarios of Campaign Item values:
Is Ad Price Exclusive? | Is Campaign Item Exclusive? | Is Ad Type connected? (Connection linked) | Expected values taken account/check started |
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yes | yes | yes |
check exclusive availability | |||
yes | no | yes | check adserver availability |
no | yes | yes |
check exclusive availability | |||
no | no | yes | check adserver availability |
yes | yes | no |
check exclusive availability | |||
yes | no | no | not forecastable |
no | yes | no |
check exclusive availability | |||
no | no | no | not forecastable |