Function
This Checkbox steers if the item should be billed by booked quantity or by delivered quantity. (Remember: As long as the item has no delivered quantities assigned, the associated Invoice Item can have an amount of zero.) Standard linear distribution is calculated by day.
The workflow Set_LinearDistribution automatically sets the linear distribution flag to true
- if the record type is not Online OR
- Billing Category != CPM, CPC, vCPM
- AND invoice quantity manual has not been entered.
Distribution Unit and Period
Version 2.92 and up
The Campaign Item has two fields:
- Distribution (Unit)
- Distribution (Period)
Both control how a Campaign Item quantity and amount are distributed amongst the related PreInvoices.
This will not be reflected in the Revenue Schedule. The amount values will always show the linear amount estimation by day. Therefore a 30 day month will show a different amount than a month with 29 or 31 days.
You can set the Unit to Quantity instead of Amount, then the Quantity will be distributed to the PreInvoices instead of the Amount.
Using the Period picklist, you can control if the system will take either
- the default distribution based upon the number of days in a month, or
- distributed evenly across months, no matter how long an item is planned in that month
This is only relevant for Linear Distribution, also Revenue Schedules are not affected by these changes only the creation of PreInvoices.