If you are selling Ad Specs exclusively, it’s important to check thoroughly if a booking is possible or not to prevent double bookings. Before using the booking calendar please set up your 3.1.4 Ad Prices and mark them exclusive or limited.
With the help of the Booking Calendar, available, offered, booked, and over-booked inventory is displayed. You can also watch this video Ad Booking Calendar to get an idea how to use this tool. Additionally you can use the 4.4.6 Check Availability for Exclusive Products to manage exclusive items (Version 2.83 and up).
More details you find here:
Your administrator might need to adjust the booking calendar to your needs please refer to this page 7.2.4 Setup Booking Calendar.
Navigate to the App Launcher and search for Booking Calendar. You can also open booking calendar from the Overview Tab, the tab bar or out of a media campaign:
After creating a new Media Campaign the Booking Calendar is available as a button to see at a glance which inventory is available to be sold at a certain date.
Click the button Booking Calendar. The Booking Calendar opens and the field Media Campaign is automatically filled with the just created Media Campaign data.
If you can't find the Booking Calendar button, please contact your system administrator to add the button to the page layout. |
You are able to go back to the Media Campaign via a link next to the Show button:
The Booking Calendar shows
Campaign Items which are marked as "exclusive".
The search results for the selected time column will show only the list results with the exact same unit or "shorter" units which can be converted. Longer max App Units are never converted to be used when selecting shorter time columns. I.e. Years will not be shown in Quarters. But Weeks can be listed in Months, Quarters and Years.
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Here you can see which smaller units on your AdSpec are converted and shown in the booking calendar if the following time columns are selected:
time columns → / max AppUnit | day | week | month | quarter | year |
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day | converted | converted | converted | converted | converted |
week | - | converted | - | - | - |
month | - | - | converted | converted | converted |
quarter | - | - | - | converted | converted |
year | - | - | - | - | converted |
Version 2.108 and up
If you need to reset your filters as you changed the predefined fields you can use the Reset button next to the Show button.
Due to procedural implementation the filter Media Campaign will never be reset and would need to be cleared manually if desired. |
The following checkboxes only works after you have searched and filtered some results:
Next Click the button Show.
It is not recommended to display long time periods! The system administrator is able to create multiple preset chart types and add filter fields. |
With the Booking Calendar, you see at a glance which inventory is booked, offered and available. You are also able to add inventory directly to your Media Campaign.
Select available inventory and add it to the basket:
The inventory, as well as your selected dates, are automatically transferred, you can go directly to the media configuration to configure your new Campaign Items.
Clicking the 'i' icon next to the availability you will get further information where this inventory is offered or booked. The first number shows the booked inventory, the number in the middle the already offered and the last number the available inventory. Please keep in mind that the "until" date/day is excluded and viewed as available. |
The inventory, as well as your selected dates, are automatically transferred, so you are able to configure these new Campaign Items.
To configure your items:
You are lead to a view of your Media Basket:
There are three different buttons:
After finishing the media configuration you are back into your Media Campaign.
Version | 2.115 and up |
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Supported Adservers | n/a |
With version 2.115, you are now also able to use the Media Search Lightning in the Booking Calendar. See 8.4.5 Setup and Configure the Media Search for Lightning (BETA) for detailed steps, how to activate this feature.
If you have started the booking calendar directly you also have the option to create a new media campaign directly in the booking calendar. Available in Lightning from /wiki/spaces/SO/pages/811270145 onwards.
We're currently facing problems, that a user creates a Media Campaign for the first time, the process doesn't finisher properly and leads to the Media Campaign Page instead of the Media Configuration with the selected items. This happens only the first time and afterwards everything works as expected. |
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