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2.115 and up

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The Media Search helps you to find the products you would like to add to your campaigns. Our new Media Search offers customizable fields which allow you to use an optimized search.

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  • The Add Items button on the Campaign Item list

  • The Commercial Optimizer

  • The Booking Calendar

Additionally, we offera button "Media Search" at the top of any Media Campaign record page. 

To use the new "Media Search" option, please ask your administrator to active activate it in the Administration Settings: 8.4.5 Setup and Configure the Media Search for Lightning

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After opening the Media search you should be able to see two different sections.:

  1. Search for products

    1. The first section offers you a quick search “Quick Search” field in which you can directly look search for the name of your productProduct, Site, sitePlacement, placement. 
      Selections from here will directly be added to your basket and etc. From Quick Search, you can proceed directly with step 6. “Start media configuration”.

    2. The second section offers many filter fields which can be customized by your Administrator. You can choose multi-select lookup options in the Site, Placement, and Ad Type fields. You can add several options one by one in every lookup. Selections will be added to your basket.

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      1. If the Media Campaign in question has an assigned Rate Cardcard, this will be pre-filled in the Media Search filter fields.

      2. If a Rate Card card filter is added or it is predefined, other fields such as the Site or Placement lookups will offer only the inventory that is connected to this Rate Cardcard

      3. Only Ad Specs with the filtered Rate Card card can be added to the Media Campaign.

  2. After selecting all relevant criteria please click the filter button.

  3.  Check results: The results section shows will show you results found according to the selected filters the found results. Please check the results and click + for any Ad Spec you would like to add to the basket. Alternatively, you can add all Ad Specs items by ticking the box beside “Ad Spec Name” field.

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  4. After selecting the Ad Specs you will notice that they have been added to your Media Basket “Media Basket” on the right side of the screen.

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  5. You can remove selected Ad Specs from the basket by clicking the trash symbol.

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    Or you can remove all data from Media Basket if you click the “Unselect all” button.

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  6. If you are satisfied with the products added to your basket you can start press the “Start Media Configuration via the button on the button right alternatively navigate back Configuration” button. Alternatively, navigate “Back to the Media Campaign Campaign” by using the link on the left.

  7. Arrived in the Media Configuration you can proceed with this article: 4.3 Media Configuration.

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The Media Search gives you the possibility to view your packages with their components. If you have a package header in your result list you will recognize it by the dropdown sign which appears next to the name. As you can see on the screenshot you will then be able to collapse a view of the package components to get a full overview of the package directly in the Media Search results list.

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Check Availability

If your administrator enabled the Check Availability for the Media Search you will be able to check your availabilities immediately after filtering and even before the selection for the basket.

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When your administrator turned the Admin Setting "Only available results in Media Search" to true - please have in mind that only available results are shown. 

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After the time period is selected and the filter button is hit the Ad Prices are checked against the filters. The prices will get an Availability in the last column of the results.

You will be noticed by a green toast at the top of your page when the the Availability Check is completely finished. 

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The predefined filters will probably already be set and you can enter the Media Search with preselected criteria configured by your Admin. You would just need to fill the filters you would like to set additionally. It could look similar to this:

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Content filtering

When you are filtering for contents and adding prices to the basket the filtered Contents will be preselected in the Media Configuration. You will also be able to see the selected contents in the basket already.

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The Content filter field also accepts comma-separated lists of record ids to paste the values. Those record ids can be put into it like this: 

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Please have a look at our Wiki to see how to see how to set those Targeting Groups up: 3.9 How to target my ads to Target Groups/Audiences (Targeting Groups)

After that, the filter would need to be added to the Media Search so that the users can set the filter. Here is the setup article for that: How to configure a target group based filter in Media Search.

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