PeopleSoft eSettlements 9.1 PeopleBook

Managing Banners

This chapter provides an overview of banner management and discusses how to:

Set up and add banners.
Manage banners.

Understanding Banner Management

Banner management enables comprehensive management of advertising banner presentation and click stream tracking. Banners can be stored on your server, the exchange host server, or a remote server through the uniform resource locator (URL) of the graphics interchange format (GIF) banner image file.

Banner management includes functionality to control display start and end dates, banner rotation, and user role-based presentation. Should a buying or selling entity not want its users to be presented banners, this feature can be deactivated on the buyer or supplier registration pages. In such cases, only the default banner appears, a nonanimated GIF file or a simple background color.

Setting Up and Adding Banners

To enable advertising banners to appears on buyer and supplier pages, you must change the portal template for your organization's database.

Oracle delivers a standard portal template that enables banner advertising.

This section discusses how to define banner templates.

Page Used to Set Up and Add Banners

Page Name	Definition Name	Navigation	Usage
General Settings	PORTAL_REG_ADM	PeopleTools, Portal, General Settings, General Settings	Define banner templates.

Defining Banner Templates

Access the General Settings page (PeopleTools, Portal, General Settings, General Settings).

Default Template Name	Select EP_EM_MARKETPAY_TEMPLATE in the drop-down list box.
Object Owner ID	Select FMP (eSettlements).
Default Template Name	Select eSettlements Template for both the ERP and EPM nodes.

Warning! You set up only the ERP and EPM nodes. Do not modify the other nodes in the grid.

Save the page, sign out, and restart your web and application servers to make banners available for display.

Managing Banners

You can add or delete banners at any time, and the system records the information. Each time a user clicks a banner, the system records the selection information as well. Click stream tracking information is a combination of the user and the banner that the user clicks. The system records users' banner clicks by inserting a row into the Banner Usage table (PS_BANNER_CLICK).

To manage banners, use the Maintain Banners component (EM_BANNER_ADMIN).

This section discusses how to:

Manage banners.
Review banner activity.

Pages Used to Manage Banners

Page Name	Definition Name	Navigation	Usage
Maintain Banners - Information	EM_BANNER_ADMIN	eSettlements, Administration, Maintain Banners, Maintain Banners - Information	Add or update banners.
Review Banner Usage - Click Stream Tracking	EM_BANNER_CLICK	eSettlements, Administration, Review Banner Usage, Review Banner Usage - Click Stream Tracking	View the click count of a particular banner.

Managing Banners

Access the Maintain Banners - Information page (eSettlements, Administration, Maintain Banners, Maintain Banners - Information).

Banner Seq ID (banner sequence ID)

Displays the banner ID, numbered automatically if you do not make a selection when accessing the page.

Description

Enter the banner description.

Default

Select for the displayed banner to be the default banner. This is the default banner when the user is not in any other banners' target audience. The system automatically manages the sole default banner, and you must set up one default banner. To change the default, enter another banner ID and select its Default check box.

From Date

Enter the date that the banner first becomes available to display.

To Date

Enter the last day that the banner is available. If you don't enter a date, the banner doesn't expire.

Seconds to Display

Enter the amount of time elapsing before the displayed banner is replaced by the next. Banners appear according to the banner sequence ID, and the system administrator can modify the display order.

Image URL (uniform resource locator)

Enter the storage location for the banner URL.

Redirect URL

Enter the represented organization's web address as specified by the host administrator.

Bill To

Enter the organization represented by a given banner and thus billed for its management.

Company Name

Enter the organization represented by the banner.

Roles for Presentation

Add and select each role name to which banners are presented.

Reviewing Banner Activity

Access the Review Banner Usage - Click Stream Tracking page (eSettlements, Administration, Review Banner Usage, Review Banner Usage - Click Stream Tracking).

Review the banner view history, including the specific date/time click.

For each banner, this page displays the user, the date, and the time that the user clicked a particular banner.

Banner Seq ID (banner sequence ID)	Displays the banner ID, numbered automatically if you do not make a selection when accessing the page.
Description	Enter the banner description.
Default	Select for the displayed banner to be the default banner. This is the default banner when the user is not in any other banners' target audience. The system automatically manages the sole default banner, and you must set up one default banner. To change the default, enter another banner ID and select its Default check box.
From Date	Enter the date that the banner first becomes available to display.
To Date	Enter the last day that the banner is available. If you don't enter a date, the banner doesn't expire.
Seconds to Display	Enter the amount of time elapsing before the displayed banner is replaced by the next. Banners appear according to the banner sequence ID, and the system administrator can modify the display order.
Image URL (uniform resource locator)	Enter the storage location for the banner URL.
Redirect URL	Enter the represented organization's web address as specified by the host administrator.
Bill To	Enter the organization represented by a given banner and thus billed for its management.
Company Name	Enter the organization represented by the banner.