To begin a new NTR schedule, click the NTR tab. From the Actions Menu, click Add Flights. If your schedule already contains NTR rows, you can also access the Add Flights dialog by clicking the NTR Total link available in the top row of the schedule grid.
NTR Flight groupings are displayed only on the Vendor Distribution view. You can add the NTR Flights only from the Vendor Distribution view on the NTR tab.
In the dialog box, when you click OK, Tapscan adds a new flight to the schedule.
To add A FLight to an NTR schedule:
1. Open the Actions menu in the toolbar and select Add Flights.
2. Tapscan provides a default name for your flight, such as Flight A. Optionally, you can update the Flight name.
3. Select vendors that you plan to include in your schedule:
• Click the add vendors link or the edit vendors link to open the Select Vendors dialog. Select the Vendors that you have saved in Accounts to assign them to your flight.
To change vendors in the list...
– Use the Search filters to filter the list of vendors.
– Click stations in the Available box to select and move the highlighted stations to the Selected box.
– Click OK to close the Select Vendors dialog.
The Available Vendors list in the Add Flight dialog is refreshed and displays a new list of the selected stations.
• Click vendors in the Vendors Available list to highlight and select them.
Or In the Available list heading row, click to highlight and select all the listed vendors.
• Click the highlighted items in the Available list again to clear the highlight and selection.
Tapscan adds a flight with the same weeks, rows, spots, lengths, and rates to each vendor in the Selected list. To add flights with different contents or to add flights to a different set of vendors, repeat the Add Flights workflow.
4. Accept the list of week(s) displayed.
OR click highlighted weeks in the Available box to clear the highlight and selection.
To change available weeks and flight dates, click the Start/End Date link on the parameter pane.
Your new flight now contains the weeks that appear in the Selected list when you submitted the Add Flight dialog.
5. Select ad types:
• Click the add ad types link or the edit ad types link.
• Tapscan displays the Add Ad Types dialog. For a new schedule, this dialog box is displayed as empty.
To create new Ad Types...
–Click the Create New Ad Type button at the bottom of the dialog.
– Type a name in the ad type box.
– Optionally, type an ad placement indicator.
Maximum 35 keyboard characters, except ~ (tilde) and | (pipe), for both ad type and ad placement boxes.
– Click OK.
The new ad type is automatically added to the Available and Selected boxes.
– Repeat the steps above to create more Ad Types, as desired.
• If you have previously added rows to your schedule, the Add Ad Type(s) dialog contains the ad types that currently exist in your schedule.
• Click Ad Types in the Available box to highlight and select them.
• Click OK in the Add Ad Types dialog.
The Ad Types list in the Add Flight dialog now lists the selected Ad Types.
6. Type values for units, size, and unit rate to apply to each ad type row for the specified vendor and week(s).
• The Units must be a whole number with no decimals.
• The Size is maximum 35 characters from the keyboard except ~ (tilde) and | (pipe).
• The Unit Rate is a maximum of $99,999.
7. Click OK to close the dialog and add the flights to the schedule.
8. Click Save in the toolbar to keep your changes.
OR click Save As to assign a new name to the updated schedule:
• Type a new name.
• Click Save.
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