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Conflicts

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Introduction

Conflicts provide 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.



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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
  • Archive: Checkmark on/off to show Archive.
  • Trash: Checkmark on/off to show Trash.
  • Merge: Merge one conflict into another and delete that conflict.
  • Reset: Reset the window and columns.
  • Refresh: (F5) Reloads the page.

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Context Menu

Right-click on any of the present 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.
• Archive -Places that conflict in Archived.
• Trash - Places that conflict in trashed.

Merge and Multi-Select:



Merge, will move all allocated areas assigned from the original sales commission to the merged one, you assign it to, and then deletes the original sales commission selected.

Multi-Select, allows you to Shift/Left click or ctrl/left click to gather a few commissions and right click to open the Context menu and apply to all highlighted.

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Columns

• Name The Name of the conflict.
• Separation method Separate by time or Availtypes.
• Amount A number used in conjunction with the separation method.

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Usage

This window is accessed through Settings.



You can...

• Make your own under the "New" button.
• Edit one on the list by highlighting one and clicking on it.
• Merge two by using the merge tool in the context menu under "File" main menu.

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Conflict

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Introduction

Clicking on the New button in conflicts or Left click "File" in the main menu and click "New" brings up the conflict window.

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Usage

The above window shows what will be displayed when you create a new conflict.

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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.

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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:

None

When the separation method is set to None, the primary/secondary conflict evaluation are skipped during the automatic placement process on the Log.

Minutes

A 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.

Avails

Separation method of Avails requires specifying the number of avails between similar items (with the same conflict).

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FAQ

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Additional Information