Development Newsletters

Release: 01-02-2012

List of new features and major fixes for this release:

  • Save and activate orders with one click
  • New account settings
  • New option for creative templates: comments
  • Expansion indicator in period reports
  • CTR in publisher statistics
  • Improved collision interface
  • Calendar widget for time period definition of statistics
  • AdOcean API update

Save and activate orders with one click

We are adding a new button to the order editing view of inactive orders: the Save and activate button. Clicking this button results in not only saving any chnages you have made, but it will also immediately activate the order.


Figure: Save and activate an inactive order with a single click

New account settings

The ACCOUNT SETTINGS view is going to be extended with 3 new options:

  • Default number of listed campaigns/orders/surrounds - you may define how many items to display in campaign, order and surround lists by default.
  • Remember search filter - you may have previously used search filters remembered by the system. This setting is turned on by default.
  • Default columns in campaign list - you may choose the columns to be displayed in campaigns list. The selectable columns are as follows: advertiser, creation date, start date, end date, impression mode, prediction, statistics, time zone, priority, sov, comments.

Campaign name, type and status are always visible and cannot be hidden. In order to set visible columns, just click on the column names while holding the CTRL button on your keyboard. Currently visible columns (prior to the release) are going to be selected here by default.


Figure: new account settings

New option for creative templates: comments

Comments may be added form now on to template parameters to act as contextual help. Creative template programmers are able to display important information and a little help where necessary. The new option for this feature is called 'comments' and should be used like this: comment_en='my help for traffickers' (where 'en' may be substituted by any other supported language code).


Figure: Comments next to template parameters in creative definition view

Expansion indicator in period reports

We are adding the expansion indicator option to period reports. To include these statistics in period reports just use the appropriate checkbox, as seen below.


Figure: Expansions in period reports

CTR in publisher statistics

CTR indicator is going to be available for publisher statistics. To see CTR numbers, please select the CTR entry from the list of statistics at the top of the view.


Figure: CTR indicator in publisher statistics

Improved collision interface

Campaigns and orders in the collision view are going to have those statistics displayed for them, according to which the delivery is planned. Moreover, progress is also going to be based on the number of counted events (not impressions exclusively). The number of all events for an order equals the number of all counted events. Progress is not presented in case of unlimited delivery plans. The planned number of events for a campaign equals the sum of planned events of all contained orders, if every order is based on the same indicator.


Figure: Collision interface

Calendar widget for time period definition of statistics

We are adding calendar widgets to the time period definition fields in STATISTICS menu. Just click in the Start date or End date field in order to make the calendar visible.


Figure: Calendar widgets for time period definition in STATISTICS

AdOcean API update

Three AdOcean API operations are going to be changed on 1st February as follows:

GetAssignedCampaignsList operation:

  • todaysDay and emissionsToday parameters are removed from AO API and cease to work
  • emissionsOverall parameter is renamed to emissionAttempts
  • progress parameter is renamed to planProgress

GetAssignedOrdersList operation:

  • todaysDate and emisssionsToday parameters are removed from AO API and cease to work
  • emissionsOverall parameter is renamed to allEvents
  • progress parameter is renamed to planProgress

SuspendCampaign operation:

  • parametr urgent is removed from AO API. Each execution of SuspendCampaign operation is treated as if urgent=Y parameter had been set.

Please check your internal tools that make use of these AO API operations and make necessary modifications to them accordingly. If you have any questions, please contact your local Tech Support.

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