Conflicts
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Introduction
Conflicts provides a way in which the scheduling engine will protect related products from appearing close to one another on the Log. For example, you might not want car dealerships to run back to back (or very close) to one another. This protection works on a
Contract by Contract basis and is in addition to
Customer separation.
Main Menu
- File
- New
Opens the Conflict Window. - Open
Opens the highlighted item in the Conflict Window - Print
Prints the existing visible list. - Print Preview
Print previews the existing visible list. - Close
Closes the window.
- View
- Trashed
Checkmark on/off to show trashed. See picture below. - Reset
Using MyViews you can design a layout that best suites your personal working style; this option serves as a means to reset the layout to "factory original." - Refresh (F5)
Reloads the list from the server.
Context Menu
Right click on any of the preset conflicts brings up the context menu.
- Open
Opens the highlighted item in the Conflict Window - New
Opens the Conflict Window. - Merge
Merges two conflicts...See below - Trash
places that conflict in the trashed list.
EC Merging Conflicts. You use this when you want to bring two conflicts together because ones obsolete. When you do decide to merge two together the first name you choose will be the one that disappears. You will not be able to split them back up, but you can create the one that disipeared again if necessary.
Columns
- Name The Name of the conflict.
- Separation method Separate by time or Availtypes.
- Amount A number used in conjunction with the separation method.
Usage
This window is accessed through
Settings.
Conflict
Introduction
Clicking on the New button in conflicts or Left click "File" in the main menu and click "New" brings up the conflict window.
Usage
The above window shows what will be displayed when you create a new
conflict.
Name
The
name field should be populated with something meaningful representing the category of advertising that will be used in order to determine whether a conflict occurs in an effort to create a reasonable separation buffer.
Separation
When the spots are scheduled on the
Log, several rules are evaluated in order to create / enforce the space between various scheduled items. Two of these rules are based on
Conflict (Primary and Secondary - defined on the
Contract). When evaluating the primary and/or secondary conflicts, the type of separation defined for the individual
Conflict is evaluated and there are three basic types:
NoneWhen the separation method is set to
None, the primary/secondary conflict evaluation are skipped during the automatic placement process on the
Log.
MinutesA separation method of
Minutes requires defining how many minutes will be used in determining how far apart similar items (with the same
conflict) can be placed. Keep in mind that the amount of time is on both sides of the item being placed compared to both sides of other items already placed.
AvailsSeparation method of
Avails requires specifying the number of avails between similar items (with the same
conflict).