Parcel Plug

Orders

• Set name
• Select advertiser
• Add line items

Line Items

• Set name
• Select inventory
  • Can contain ad units, deployments, or publishers
• Select priority (1 - 5)
  • Higher number will serve before lower number
• Select days/dates to display
  • Can be individual days
  • Can be a date range (all days within it)
• Set status
  • Enable a way to pause/stop a line item, or leave it in draft
• Add ads

Ads

• Set name
• Set width/height
• Set click URL
• Upload image asset

Request Params

[click|image]/{adunitId}?date=2019-14-01T08:50:00-0600&email=user@domain.com@rand={random}&send={identifier}

Ad Status

Flags

Deleted (deleted: true|false) Defaults to false. Determines if the ad has been outright deleted from the system. Ads can be deleted via the interface.

Paused (paused: true|false) Defaults to false. Determines if the ad is paused Ads can be paused via the interface.

Ready (ready: true|false) Defaults to false. Determines if the ad is ready to be delivered. Is controlled (and saved) by the backend. Is not toggleable in the interface. Is true when:

• The image ratio is compatible with the ad width and height fields

Status

This field is not saved directly on the model and, instead, is calculated using flags. In priority order (acts like a switch block):

• Deleted
  • When deleted: true
• Incomplete
  • When ready: false
• Paused
  • When paused: true
• Active
  • When all of the above criteria are not met

Line Item Status

Flags

Deleted (deleted: true|false) Defaults to false. Determines if the line item has been outright deleted from the system. Line items can be deleted via the interface.

Ready (ready: true|false) Defaults to false. Determines if the line item is ready to be delivered. Is controlled (and saved) by the backend. Is not toggleable in the interface. Is true when:

• The dates.start and dates.end values are both set, or dates.days is set and not empty.
• The targeting value has a least one id set (for either ad units, deployments, or publishers).
• The line item has at least one Active ad.

Paused (paused: true|false) Defaults to false. Is directly toggleable in the interface.

Status

This field is not saved directly on the model and, instead, is calculated using flags. In priority order (acts like a switch block):

• Deleted
  • When deleted: true
• Finished
  • When dates.end or the newest/greatest dates.day value is less than or equal to now
• Incomplete
  • When ready: false
• Paused
  • When paused: true
• Running
  • When dates.start or the oldest/least dates.day value is less than or equal to now
• Scheduled
  • When all of the above criteria is not met

Cascading Updates

Advertiser

On advertiser.name change, the advertiserName will be updated on related

• orders
• lineitems
• ads

Order

On order.name change, the orderName will be updated on related

• lineitems
• ads

On order.advertiserId change, the advertiserId and advertiserName will be updated on related

• lineitems
• ads

On order.advertiserId change, the advertiserId will be updated where order.id === orderId on

• events

Line Item

On lineitem.name change, the lineitemName will be updated on related

• ads

On lineitem.orderId change, the orderId, orderName, advertiserId, and advertiserName will be updated on related

• ads

On lineitem.orderId change, the orderId will be updated where lineitem.id === lineitemId on

• events

Ad

On ad.lineitemId change, the lineitemName, orderId, orderName, advertiserId, and advertiserName will be updated on itself

On ad.lineitemId change, the lineitemId, orderId and advertiserId will be updated where ad.id === adId on

• events

On ad.lineitemId change, the lineitemId will be updated where ad.id === adId on

• correlators

Publisher

On publisher.name change, the publisherName will be updated on related

• deployments
• adunits

Deployment

On deployment.name change, the deploymentName will be updated on related

• adunits

On deployment.publisherId change, the publisherId and publisherName will be updated on related

• adunits

On deployment.publisherId change, the publisherId will be updated where deployment.id === deploymentId on

• events

Ad Unit

On adunit.deploymentId change, the deploymentName, publisherId, and publisherName will be updated on itself

On adunit.deploymentId change, the publisherId and deploymentId will be updated where adunit.id === adunitId on

• events