Media > Today media page [guide]
The Today page for media is a centralized hub for the ordering & tracking of media-related items. It allows you to create print/broadcast orders, track order close & material due dates, adjust buy lines and track accrued orders.
Guide contents: Navigation | Security rights | System settings | Media workflow | Conversations | Daily feed
Navigation
Security rights
View today media - Allows access to the Today media screen from the menu.
---- Edit media setup options - Allows access to the Publication & Stations views.
System settings
From the ...More button at the top of the page, you can access System settings. From here you can adjust the sections & items that are visible to/hidden from your team to provide a cleaner view for your staff.
Media workflow
Open items
Here you will be alerted of open transactions relating to media buys. These include unapproved broadcast/print orders, all open broadcast/print orders, and unapproved vendor invoices.
Clicking through will let you open a report of said records, from which you can manage further.
Orders needing attention as of (date)
This section shows broadcast & print orders that have upcoming space close dates and materials due dates. By default, the "as of" date is set to 2 weeks from today. You can adjust this date by clicking on edit icon. Clicking through will let you open a report of said records, from which you can manage further.
Space close: displays the number of orders with a space close date on or before the selected date: click to open. Check the box, you can print or email the order to the vendor. The order will then be marked: 'ordered'
Materials due: displays the number of orders with a material due date on or before the selected date: click to open. Check the box, you can mark the order that materials were sent. The order will then be marked: 'materials sent'
Views
Here are the media-specific views. You can then create custom views of each section of report data.
Reports
Here are the media-specific reports.
Conversations
Project conversations are unique. It's any unread conversation or reply to a conversation on any project where you are on the team.
On all the tabs shown (i.e. Open, etc), the conversation has to be assigned to you. That's the main criteria.
- Open is any uncompleted conversation regardless of date.
- Today is any uncompleted conversation with an activity date of today.
- This week is any uncompleted conversation with an activity date for this week.
- Unread is any uncompleted conversation with a new reply, but it has to be assigned to you.
- Favorite is any conversation you have "Starred" as a favorite.
Daily feed
This section displays all of the actions/transactions that have occurred today on projects where you are the account manager.
Some things displayed here are Time entered, Task completed, File uploaded, etc.
You can use the Date picker in the upper right of the Today page to change what dates data displays in the daily feed.