Creating and Managing Offers

Context

As a syndicator, you create subscription offers that specify content available for transfer and give details of the transfer process. By subscribing to such offers, subscribers can initiate the content transfer.

When you create an offer, you specify the following:

  • Offer components (the content to be delivered).

  • Delivery rules (delivery mode and schedule).

  • A maximum transfer volume (together with a URL and credentials for the separate download of content exceeding this volume). This step is optional.

You can add, change, or delete components of existing offers. If you change an offer for which subscribers have already created subscriptions, the next content update synchronizes the content in the subscriber system.

Subscriptions always refer to offers. Changes to a syndicator's offers induce changes in the subscriptions that reference these offers. For example, if you delete an offer component, the content specified in this component is no longer included in the subscription and is deleted from the subscriber's site when the next content update takes place. In the same way, changes to the delivery rules for offers are propagated to the subscriptions that reference the offer.

You can also delete a complete offer. If you do so, any subscriptions that still exist receive no more content updates.

Procedure


  1. Choose Offers in the Content Exchange Syndicator iView.

    A list of your current offers is displayed.

  2. To create a new offer, choose New .

  3. Enter a name and description for the offer, and choose Save Offer . The name of the offer must be unique. You cannot change the name of the offer after you have saved it.

    Tab pages for specifying offer components, delivery rules, and a maximal transfer volume are displayed.

  4. To specify content that you want to make available in this offer, choose New on the Offer Components tab page.

    The New Component form is displayed.

  5. Enter a component name.

  6. Enter a content path (a path to a directory containing the resources that you want to include in the component).

  7. Optionally, enter a target path (a path to a subdirectory in which transferred content is to be placed in the delivery directory in the subscriber system).

  8. Optionally, enter filter settings that restrict the resources in the content path that are to be included in the component. The following filters can be applied:

    • Item Names - wildcard expression representing resource names, for example, '*.doc'.

    • Max Depth - number of directory hierarchy levels to be included, starting from the content path.

    • Max Size - maximum size of the content of a resource.

    • Created After -oldest creation date considered.

    • Created Before - most recent creation date considered.

  9. To save the component, choose OK .

  10. Specify additional components for this offer as appropriate.

  11. To specify delivery rules for this offer, go to the Delivery Rules tab page. For more information, see Defining Delivery Rules for Offers .

  12. Optionally, go to the Transfer Volume tab page and enter the maximum file size to be transferred. Enter the URL to be used by subscribers for the separate downloading of large files, and specify the credential for accessing this URL. If you do not specify any credentials for the offer, the credentials in the syndicator properties are valid. Choose Submit to save your entries.

  13. To save the offer, choose Save Offer .

Results

The subscription offer is added to the syndicator's list of offers that is shown in the Content Exchange Syndicator iView.

Subscribers can now subscribe to the offer.