Highlighted Features in This Release

 

• UPDATED Campaign Fee Flighting
• UPDATED Campaign Plan control
• UPDATED Advanced MBA with Create by Period

 

UPDATED Campaign Fee Flighting

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Previously fees were only reported on as Fee Types assigned to the campaign as a whole. It was not possible to see fees over time within a campaign. Advvy has introduced Campaign Fee Flights. This is a secondary flighting table that allows a media plan to split fees by type by time. This allows for better reporting on fees.

Benefits:

• Fees no longer just a bulk value against the entire plan, split the fees by time – eg create fees per month or fees per week

Fee flights can be captured from the media plan into the Advvy Campaign plan control and can be visualised on the gantt chart

• Fee flights set per period can be added to Advanced MBAs so that both Media and Fees can be added to the approval.
• Agency visibility of fees at a more granular level.
• How to Use: Update your Excel Media Plan to allow for fees to be broken down into fee flights.

• Create a new macro or add formulas to the new Fee Flighting tables on the Advvy Data Tab.

 

Contact Advvy to help create a macro to capture your current media plan fees as Fee flights.

UPDATED Campaign Plan Control

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Advvy has made improvements to the campaign plan controls to improve expenditure reporting for both individual campaigns and groups of campaigns.

The update gives a more expenditure orientated laydown and flowchart, grouped by different parameters and providing a summed total of each group designated. This update removed the need to have a separate control underneath the plan to summarise the expenditure. Now the Campaign Plan and Expenditure is one and the same.

Single Campaign Plan (Record Campaign Plan)

• Expenditure by Time
  • Now introduced on each grouping level is the sum of the gross media of each level under it by time. It will display this expenditure on the bar on the flowchart. This bar indicates that below it, within that time, is media planned. The lowest level is always Campaign Flightings that indicates the details of that media activity. The length of time that is summed is related to the zoom level on the control.
    • Day, Week and Month view is summed by month
    • Year view is summed by year.
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Controls

 

• Grouping Levels
  • Previously
    • It was only possible to group campaigns in 2 levels “x” by flighting. – Media Type and Flighting, Market and Flighting, Network and Flighting, Medium and Flighting. This limited the ability to get expenditure by the design parameters.
  • Now
    • The Campaign Plan now has a master grouping of Media and Fees. The Campaign Plan Separates these out as two groupings that will always stay on the campaign plan. (Fees won’t show if Fee flighting isn’t used)
    • Underneath Media
      • It is now possible to create up to 5 levels of groups, with each lower group summing up the expenditure to the higher group.
      • The lowest level is always flighting.
      • By selecting the levels on the grouping icon, and the order in which you select them will “pivot” the plan by that selection.
        • eg Media by Markey By Network, By Medium By Flighting.
          • Any combination of Media, Market, Network and Medium can be selected, as 1, 2, 3 ,or 4 groups/levels to report on.
• Columns
  • Columns are now selected from the flighting record only. Previously it also included some columns that came from the campaign record like Budget, client and product. As these were only displayed on the campaign line, it took up unnecessary space.
  • More columns have been added from the flighting record to accommodate for different ways of seeing the plan.
• Expand Selection
  • Updated expand selection function, so that depending on what groups have been selected, it’s possible to easily expand to the level and summary that you need. There are 2 levels
    • Campaign – Minimises all levels and only shows summary of Campaign, Media and Fees
    • Group – expands to show the summary of each group that is selected. IT will show all summary levels.
    • Flighting – Expands the whole plan to show individual flightings under the lowest group selected.
• Filters
  • This filter control allows you to filter the flighting records so that you may ascertain a better understanding of a specific view of expenditure you need.
  • The filter control is also used to create an MBA by the filtered records.
  • The newest filter is a filter by time. This enables you to filter the records by a period of time that will then be used to generate an MBA record that time.
• Advanced MBA Create
  • Previously an MBA was created from the ribbon bar. This was a separate process of manually selecting media types to create an MBA. It easily allowed horizontal creation of MBA’s by media type, but it was difficult ti create MBA’s by time. The new filter functionality on the Campaign now can be used to more easily create an MBA by any parameter including time.
    • Once a selection of the campaign plan has been filtered to the right parameters, it’s now easier to create an MBA. The MBA button will create an MBA summary first from the filtered selection in a side form. Simply hit create button to create the MBA.

 

•  Zoom
  • Zoom between year, month, week and day
• Settings
  • Calculation Type
    • This allows you to change the calculation type of how the expenditure summaries are calculated
      • Pro-Rata
      • Start Date
    • Media Sum Value
      • This gives the option to see the expenditure summaries by value type
        • Gross, Net, TCC, Value
      • Show Media and Fees Total
        • This shows a highest level summary on the campaign line of the sum of all media and fees.
• Export
  • This functionality has been improved and bug fixed so that it will always export the total selection and not just what you see on screen.

 

All Campaign Plan

An overhaul of the existing All Campaign Plan (Campaign Plan  dashboard) has also occurred with similar UI updates coming from the individual campaign plan. There are some subtle differences.

• Grouping
  • To give better context when looking at all agency campaigns, a new higher level for Client has been added. This will sum up the campaign totals to the client line to get a quick and easy understanding of what is being planned for each client.
• Expand
  • Includes an extra level to view expenditure by client, by group, by campaign, and detailed flighting
• Settings
  • The toggle for showing total media expenditure is now set at the client level.
• Load more
  • As there is a lot of data needing to be queried there is a limit on how many campaigns can be loaded to view. The load more button enables more records to be loaded at 25 records each time.

Limitations

There may be some performance issues when loading too many campaigns to view. Best practice would be to Filter the client selection first and then manipulate the control.

 

UPDATED Create Advanced MBA

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Welcome to Advanced MBAs. In this release Advvy has introduced a new way to create MBA’s from your synced Media Plans.

Definition: MBA’s are Media Booking Authorities, a representation of the Media and Fees at a moment in time that Agencies send to clients for approval. Once approved by the client, the booking of the media can commence.

	Previous Release MBA:	Current Release Advanced MBA:
·  Create an MBA	from the Ribbon Button	from the Campaign Plan
·  Create an MBA for the entire Media Plan	Yes	Yes
·  Create an MBA filtered to a single Media type	Yes	Yes
·  Create an MBA filtered to multiple media types (but not all)	Yes	Yes
·  Create an MBA filtered to a period of time	No	Yes! New!
·  Create an MBA filtered to a Media Type, with Media Type fee flights included	No	Yes! New! ** requires Excel Media Plan to sync Fees as Fee Flights

 

MBAs can now be created based on filtered data sets by time periods.

1. In a campaign, navigate to the Campaign Plan Tab

2. Select the Filter Icon to display filter options and fill in desired criteria including start and end date. Select [Apply]

3. Confirm that the campaign details displayed are what you want included on an MBA, and then click on the create MBA icon to generate the MBA record.

 

 

Release Details

1. Enhancements

Area	ID	Title
Bespoke Dev	7111	MK Media: Notification : Daily Critical Tasks
Bespoke Dev	7112	MK Media: Notification : Daily Tasks Assigned
Bespoke Dev	7251	UM: Create a new plug-in to lock all flights on a Campaign eg for Hardclose
Bespoke Dev	7290	ADD 3 more Flighting Status Settings to Configuration Settings for Sweeney
Campaign	7017	Last Note – from Timeline only shows Notes and not latest Task Note
Campaign Plan	7176	All Campaign Plan – UI and UX improvements
Campaign Plan	7186	Additional Campaign Flighting Fields
Core Logic	7004	Research how to have multi-language support for custom code (JS/PCF/plugins)
Core Logic	7104	Add timeline control to Client form
Core Logic	7129	Add Medium support on Fee Flights
Core Logic	7210	Add new Flighting Type of “Paused”
Core Logic	7237	Expenditure Plan: Update type filter to contain the types for the current dataset
Environment	5829	Data Migration – Advvy D365 Environment to PowerApps-only Environment
MBAs	7123	Make Date Range on Advanced MBA plugin optional
MBAs	7126	Finish the Advanced MBA plugin
MBAs	7130	Update MBA creation process with improvements
MBAs	7270	MBA Totals roll up and fields
Media Plan	6525	Media Planning – MBA – Add campaign plan on MBA form in Agency App.
Media Plan	6908	Add Campaign Fee Flighting table to the media plan
Media Plan	7136	Changes to display fields for media plan
Media Plan	7187	Add import sync capabilities to additional campaign flighting fields
Media Plan	7278	Add Plan Version to Campaign Import Job
Portal	7171	PORTAL: Campaign Details – Channel Overview to display 20 records per page
Portal	7263	PORTAL: Record Campaign Plan as PCF
Workflow	6807	Advvy Activity Time Log Entry: Re-work Quick Create form
Workflow	6893	Plugin to throw exception when trying to Activate WF that has stages with no tasks
Workflow	7095	Activity List Control: Start and End Time to be set to 8am and 5pm on timeline
Workflow	7281	Add repair tweak to workflow definition activate logic

2. Bug Fixes

*List excludes internal backend Advvy development and bug fixes.

Area	ID	Title
Core Logic	7113	Need to separate out the reference data matching process.
Core Logic	7135	Master Client not populated when Connecting to Campaign
Core Logic	6683	PORTAL: Styling issues when clicking next and previous page on lists
Core Logic	7169	Error in sync logic processing Position/Placement Duration/Size and Ad Category fields
Core Logic	7241	Expenditure Plan: Retrieve of filter options doesn’t include only “Active” and “Inactive – Completed” campaigns similar to the gantt data
Core Logic	7252	After Sync Campaign Media Type and Campaign Fee re-aggregation doesn’t include existing locked records
MBAs	7264	Creating MBA Fee Flights produces an error from Advanced MBA process.
Media Plan	7141	Optionset Lookup is not case-insensitive.
Media Plan	7213	Error with the logic for applying fees with/without media types
Media Plan	7238	Error in Aggregation flighting selection query
Portal	7148	PORTAL: Campaign Plan – ‘Start’ filter for date range selector retrieving incorrect data
Portal	7195	UM PROD PORTAL: AO / Expenditure Plan and Campaign Plan flighting retrieve (+ button) not loading
Reporting	6533	TA PowerBI Report – Showing a1axxxxxxx in a number of places.
Workflow	7079	Save Workflow Button (Workflow Activities Control): Sometimes Duplicate Hierarchy Definitions are being created after saving new workflow
Workflow	7149	Time Log Entry [Advvy Activities]: Negative time remaining is displayed as duration on new quick create form – should be set to 0
Workflow	7185	Workflow Definition List: Bulk-edit ignores plugin exceptions for changing the status of WF definitions – Lock status field by default on WF definition form
Workflow	7294	Workflow Activity Definition when adding Hierarchy Definition Workflow Definition link is missing

3. Data Upgrades

*Advvy performing data housekeeping on existing records to ensure compatibility with new features

Area	ID	Title