Virtual Faces, Child Faces and Vehicles

Faces can have sub-sets of faces: On a bus that has three faces: a face on the pedestrian-facing side, the street side and the rear, the entire bus is a fourth face called a virtual face. This virtual face groups all three faces.

This page describes how virtual and child faces are structured in the Static Campaigns module on vehicles such as buses.

Virtual Structure

Virtual Faces

Virtual Faces

Static Campaigns

Virtual faces, such as wraps on buses, are faces that envelope other faces. For example, full bus wraps are surfaces added to the exterior of buses that cover the sides and rear faces of the bus.

  • The faces covering other faces are tracked independently as virtual faces.
  • The child face is the face that is covered with the virtual face and therefore becomes unavailable when the virtual face is booked.

Example A

  • Advertiser #1 has an ad running on the Street Side Sign.
  • Advertiser #2 wants to run an ad on the Full Wrap.

When checking avails, the Full Wrap will show as unavailable because the Full Wrap’s child face, Street Side Sign, is not available.

Example B

  • Advertiser #1 has an ad running on the Street Side Wrap.
  • Advertiser #2 wants to run an ad on the Street Side face.

When checking avails, the street side face will show as unavailable because the street side wrap is taking up the child face of the street side face.

Asset Data

When importing or creating the Asset data manually, it is very important to identify the Virtual Face right away.

  • Once you have created or imported your inventory, the check mark is not editable in the UI.
  • If a Face needs to be set to 'virtual' once it has been created or imported, the changes need to occur in the database.
  • Virtual Faces can be sold in a Pack but currently cannot be added to a Pack without database manipulation.

Virtual Face

Link Real Faces to Virtual Faces

To determine the relationship between Faces, you need to link the appropriate Faces together in the Related Faces tab in the left navigation bar.

Related Faces

Example 1

A virtual Full Bus Wrap face is linked to all its real/normal faces.

Example 2

We can go even further. Another virtual face can be linked to real faces.

Seeing a Site's Configured Faces

Within the Site record, click the Assets tab in the left navigation bar.

Assets

This presents the site's details. This includes a flowchart illustrating the parent child relationship between the site and any faces it contains.

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