6.2.3 Lines tabs

Under the Lines tab, you must provide the breakdown of the purchase order with details of every line that relates to the licensing rights and costs of a particular single/season program.

Lines tab

To add a new order line, click on the Add button.

If you click on the Columns setting button, you can enable, turn on or off or arrange the columns in the table in a preferred way. In order to so, a template must be first created for one or more groups of users in Etere Configuration > Settings > Web BMS Contract Lines.

You can access several options/actions to be performed on a line by clicking the Options icon on each line.

Contract Lines

• Edit: Modify the contract line;
• Duplicate: Copy the selected contract line. If the source line has a program linked to it, the contract line would be copied without the related program;
• Delete: Delete the selected line;
• Create and assign a new program (single/seasons): Create a new asset or a recent seasons episode and links it to the selected line;

  Create_and_assign_a_new_program
  

The following functions display a form where the user can insert some of the new asset data:

• Assign an asset / Assign entire seasons: This function allows the user to assign a single program or seasons to the selected line. The asset search can be filtered by ID, code or description.

  After the asset/seasons selection, you must choose if you will manage the rights for a single episode or all the episodes of the seasons in the current contract line.

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• Open the linked program (single/seasons): If the line has a linked program, it will open the related asset form;
• Delete link to the program (single/seasons): If the line has a linked program, it will delete the link from the selected line.
• View program cost per period: It allows one to view the expenses derived from the selected single/season program for a certain period.
• Recalculate rights: It allows recalculating the Run (R) and ReRun (RR) rights for the selected line. An example of an incorrect rights assignment would be RR scheduled before R. With this helpful tool, the rights would be recalculated and adjusted.

A contract line is made by seven tabs described deeper in the next chapters. Each contains the relevant details and information defined for the line.

• Main data
  
• Additional data
  
• Finance
  
• Rules
  
• Scheduling status
  
• Notes
  
• Restrictions

When all information in the above seven tabs is fulfilled, clicking the <Save and exit> button in Main Data will create and insert the VOD contract line in the General tab.

Upon creation, you must search for an asset in the Lines tab and link the new contract line to the asset with the Assign an asset / Assign entire seasons function mentioned above.

In summary, you can follow the steps indicated below when creating VOD contracts:

1. Create VOD elements and link to Flexi-metadata, as described in the chapter.
2. Create Platform Template and set the mandatory rules.
3. Configure the desired columns to view the VOD contracts.
4. Create a new VOD contract.
5. Provide General information for a new contract.
6. Fulfill all required information in the Lines tabs.
7. Link the new VOD contract to an asset with the "Assign to asset" function.
8. Run related T-workflow to process the VOD contract.