Title Hierarchy

Individual title masters are linked by the part, underlying component and title relationships, thus creating a title hierarchy.

The title hierarchy is required to view accounts and revenues, for which account assignment has been performed at a lower level, at the higher level.

The Part, Underlying Component, and Underlying Title relationship types are evaluated to determine the higher-level title.

Example: You want to view costs for an episode at series, seasons and episode level.

Structure

The following diagram displays the use of relationships of the Underlying Component, Part and Underlying Title types for the definition of the title hierarchy and the definition of the title for an IP.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Process Flow for Determination of the Title

Use relationships of the Underlying Component, Part and Underlying Title types to define the title for an IP in the IPM business processes (rights acquisition and rights sales). This is only relevant if the IP itself is not a title master. Relationships are read here starting from the IP in ascending order until an IP is found which is a title master.

Example Example

You use IP 2 (from the graphic above) in a rights sales contract. Relationships are used to determine title 3, to which revenues are assigned.

End of the example.

Process Flow for Determination of the Title Hierarchy

Title masters assigned to a title master are determined here. Relationships of the Part, Underlying Component, and Underlying Title types are evaluated here.

Example Example

The system determines title 1 and title 2 as higher-level titles for title 3 (see diagram above). This means that revenues from the example can be evaluated in an aggregated format for title 1 and title 2 in by title financial processing and reporting.

End of the example.

Maintain Relationships

You maintain relationships for the title hierarchy and title determination during product maintenance. You can either maintain a title relationship directly or maintain it indirectly when you create a relationship of a different type. The Title Relation indicator is available to you for the Part and Underlying Component relationship types that are relevant here. If enabled for an IP, this indicator specifies that a relationship is relevant to by title financial processing and reporting. These relationships are also displayed in the Underlying Titles section, but cannot be maintained there.

You use the following relationship types during relationship maintenance:

Relationship Type	If
Part	..the title hierarchy corresponds to the hierarchy for the parts.
Underlying Component	..the title hierarchy corresponds to the hierarchy for the underlying components.
Underlying Title	..the title hierarchy does not correspond to the hierarchy for the parts or underlying components and has to be maintained separately.

Example

You represent a TV production using the series 1, season 2 and episodes 1 - 10 IP products. In this case the title hierarchy is identical to the parts hierarchy. This means that series 1 is a title for level 1, season 2 is the title at level 2 and the episodes are titles at level 3. Choose the Part relationship type and set the Title Relation indicator for all IPs to represent this in the system.