Use

This function is used to create sub ad specs.

Integration

It is part of ad spec processing and is available to you as follows during creation and modification of ad and online ad specs:

You can also create sub ad specs with a format proposal hierarchy in ad items.

See also: Creation of Ad Specs with Format Proposal Hierarchy

Prerequisites

Ad or online ad specs that consist of individual sub ad specs are to be created.

This can involve a multi-page ad that has three pages. The first two pages are 4C, are found on opposite sides of the page, have a gutter margin and bleed. The third page is black and white and corresponds to the type area.

You have made all the relevant settings in Customizing.

Features

Basic principles for creating sub ad specs

You create sub ad specs for ad specs.

The procedure is as follows:

Creation of linked sub ad specs

When creating linked sub ad specs, you specify the type of sub ad spec linking involved and create a blank data record for each sub ad spec in the linked sub ad specs.

The system assigns a sub ad spec number and an item number to each data record.

The sub ad spec number identifies this sub ad spec and is only unique in conjunction with the sales document number and the item type.

See also: Sub Ad Spec

The item number describes the item for the sub ad spec in the linked sub ad specs.

The system uses the header ad spec as the reference ad spec during number assignment. The header ad spec is the ad spec to which sub ad specs are assigned. This ad spec has item number Zero. Sub ad specs are assigned item numbers according to the sequence in which they follow the header ad spec.

If you create a multi-page ad with three pages or a banner family with three banners, you create a header ad spec and assign two sub ad specs to this ad spec.

This ad spec has item number Zero. The sub ad spec that follows the header ad spec has item number One. The sub ad spec that follows the sub ad spec has item number Two.

The system displays the number of ad specs in the linked sub ad specs and the item numbers for the ad specs on the Details tab page for the ad spec and the respective sub ad spec. The system displays this type of multi-page ad or banner family as follows at ad spec level:

The following functions are available to you for editing the linked sub ad specs and creating sub ad specs on the Sub ad specs tab page:

Enter sub ad spec data

The system creates a blank data record for each sub ad spec when you create linked sub ad specs.

The Display detailed ad specs function can be used to enter the ad spec data for the respective sub ad spec on the sub ad spec Details tab page for each data record.

You must enter the following data to provide a complete description of the sub ad spec:

If you have not entered the sub ad spec data completely, the system sets the Ad spec incomplete status characteristic in the sub ad spec status. If this status characteristic is set in the sub ad spec status, the system also sets it in the item status for the ad item. The ad item cannot be produced or billed.

See also: Ad Spec

If sub ad specs with different sub ad spec data have been assigned to an ad spec, the system displays a placeholder (star) for all ad spec data that can no longer be described uniquely at item level on the Details tab page.