The Service Orders are used to schedule content based on the specific Commercial Contract. It enables, for instance, to schedule an advertising spot many times to different blocks during an interval of dates. All of this based on intelligent repetition rules, time windows, and avoiding to schedule in dates out of the range defined in the commercial contract.
When creating a Service Order, you must fill all the mandatory fields and click to start scheduling the showings:
Once you finish your schedule of the service order, you will be able to insert automatically the events in the corresponding daily playlists. For more informatio, go to How to edit a playlist >> Automatic Ads Inserter
Calendar
Use the calendar to navigate through it and select specific weeks to view their schedules
The current week will always be highlighted in green.
These are the range of dates where you will be able to schedule content for the current Service Order. Upon changing these values, the calendar will be adapted to these values:
Start Date. Inherit from the related Commercial Contract. You cannot set a start date lower than the one specified in the related contract
End Date. Inherit from the related Commercial Contract. You cannot set an end date higher than the one specified in the related contract
Once the Service Order is saved, you won't be able to change this information.
Select a Channel. You cannot use a channel out of the ones defined in the Commercial Contract. If the current contract associated to the Service Order just have one channel, this will be inherit automatically. If there are more than one channel in the contract, you can choose one of them.
Once the Service Order is saved, you won't be able to change this information.
If you are going to schedule Jingles, follow these steps:
1. Activate the "Jingle Mode" option
2. Select the productions from the catalog. In the dialog window, they will only appear the Content Types set as "Filling" type.
3. Click "Insert" to include the selected productions and keep selecting more, "Insert and close" to include the selected productions and close the window, or "Close" to close the window.
4. In the blocks, when scheduling Jingles, there will appear the option to select the productions that should be Pre-Roll and/or Post-Roll and the Price for each one, in that specific block and date/time. The Jingles will be linked to the specific block.
Once you finish your schedule of Jingles for the service order, you will be able to import automatically the Jingles in the corresponding daily playlists of the Main subchannel. The Jingles will be imported in the playlist, for that specific day.
1. Click to select productions from the catalog to be included in the service order . (Only the Advertisements Content types will appear)
2. Click "Insert" to include the selected productions and keep selecting more, "Insert and close" to include the selected productions and close the window, or "Close" to close the window.
3. The related productions will appear in the left panel:
Once the Service Order is saved, you won't be able to change this information.
The Time Windows are used to restrict the schedule to specific intervals of time.
You can optionally select specific Time Windows that will be used to schedule content in the current Service Order. The available Time Windows are inherit from the related Commercial Contract. You cannot add more Time Windows than the available in the related contract.
Once the Service Order is saved, you won't be able to change this information.
As soon as we are scheduling showings in the current Service Order, this value will automatically indicate the number of scheduled showings and the total price.
Once you inserted all the mandatory fields of the Service Order, click to enable the grid and to start scheduling, and to apply all the changes of the Service Order.
Click to generate an automatic report including all the information about the current Service Order and its individual scheduled showings, with the total amount information, comparing broadcasted vs scheduled.
Click on to print the report
Click on to get the current real-time information of the report.