Retiring a Design

Retiring designs can be useful if you have a lot of advertising content on your instance, especially obsolete Media Files and Static Copies. You can retire the obsolete advertising content so that it is no longer available. The following rules apply:

  • You cannot schedule a Retired Design in the weekly scheduler.
  • A Retired Design is not displayed in Alto.

If a Design is allocated to a face on a "Sold" or "Contracted" Campaign, you can retire it only after the Work Orders are completed. If the Campaign is not "Sold/Contracted", you cannot retire the Design until it is allocated.

The following summarizes the process:

Use the button to Retire a single Design or Designs in bulk from the following locations:

  • Digital: Splash > Content > Media Files
  • Static: Splash > Operations > Static Copies

You can use the "Is Design Retired" Filter when searching for Designs. It is set to "No" by default, so that the risk of working with a Retired Design is low. See Filter Searches for more details on filters.

Also, only Non-Retired Designs will be displayed in the Splash > Scheduling > Campaign section under the following tabs of the Campaign record:

  • Segments tab > Digital Segment > Digital Booking Line > Weekly Scheduler of Booked Digital Packs
  • Segments tab > Digital Segment > Digital Booking Line > Weekly Scheduler of Digital Face Bookings
  • Design tab > Add Advertising Content > Select Existing Design

Digital Validation

You will not be able to retire a Design that is linked to a Bundle. You will not be able to retire a Design if it is scheduled to play or if it is already playing.

Static Validations

You are prevented from retiring a Design if:

  • The Design is linked to a work order that has not been completed yet. If you want to retire a Design, you must complete all work orders.
  • The Design is assigned to bookings in any type of Campaign. If you want to retire a Design, you must remove the postings of the bookings.
  • The number of copies in stock for the Design is greater than 0.

Retired designs still appear in the POP and DPOP as they have been posted or played in an active campaign.

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