Manual Generation of Schedule Lines

Use

You can use this function to generate schedule lines manually.

Integration

It is part of document processing and is available to you when you create and change ad items.

Document Level

Tab Pag e

Button

Item

Details

With the Generate Schedule Lines Manually quick info that is found next to the BCont.Comp. field

The system generates a billing dataset for each advertiser and assigned booking unit and not for each publication date for ad items with schedule lines that were generated manually .

See also: Generation of Billing Datasets

Prerequisites

Booking units are to be sold as follows:

  • Booking units that were not created as combined booking units with content components, copy numbers and/or publication dates that are not identical.

  • Combined booking units in which the content components, copy numbers and/or publication dates are not identical in the lower-level booking units.

    Example Example

    Magazine A is published on Mondays. Magazine B is published on Wednesdays. The magazines have different copy numbers.

    Create a basic booking unit for each magazine in the product master data. Combine the basic booking units in the Time AB combined booking unit. Define magazine A as the reference basic booking unit.

    You enter the Time AB combined booking unit and copy number 10 when you create an ad item. The copy number specified refers to the reference basic booking unit.

    Generating schedule lines for this ad item manually allows you to change the copy numbers proposed for the basic booking units and thus specify which copy number in magazine B is combined with copy number 10 in magazine A .

    Manual schedule line generation can also be used to book magazines A and B in different weeks.

    End of the example.

    Example Example

    An ad is to be published in magazine A and in the special publication for magazine B . Enter the identification key for the special publication in the Special publication field in addition to the business content component for the basic booking unit in magazine B .

    End of the example.

You have entered at least one booking unit, one content component and a publication date for the ad item.

Features

When you generate schedule lines manually, you influence automatic schedule line generation. During manual schedule line generation, you enter the data that would otherwise be generated by the system.

See also : Generation of Schedule Lines

During manual schedule line generation, the system displays combined booking units or additional booking units exploded by their basic booking units on a dialog box. The system displays the publication date or copy number, content component, special publication and the Separate ad spec or Copied ad spec indicator for each basic booking unit.

You can modify this data.

You can also generate schedule lines for an ad item manually if you have entered additional booking units, publication dates or date combinations for an ad item.

See also: Entry of Booking Units

See also: Entry of Dates

See also: Entry of Date Combinations