Initializing an Offer (MOFI)

Purpose: Initializing an offer is used to:

• Initialize an offer without transferring data.

• Initialize an offer and also transfer data from the offer to another offer.

Instructions: Before you initialize an offer and transfer data from the offer to another offer, you should make sure that no activity is being performed for either of the offers, such as entering or maintaining an order associated with the offer.

On the Offer Initialization Screen:

If you wish to initialize an offer without transferring data:

• Enter the offer in the Copy from offer field and leave the Copy to offer field blank.

• Enter N the Restrict offer’s source codes field.

If you wish to initialize an offer and also transfer the offer’s data to another offer:

• Enter the offer whose information you wish to copy in the Copy from offer field.

• Enter the offer to which you wish to transfer offer and pricing information in the Copy to offer field.

• Optionally, enter Y in the Restrict offer’s source codes field if you do not wish to copy the From offer source codes to the To offer; otherwise, enter N in the Restrict offer’s source code field.

Press F9 to accept your entries and submit the OFFER_INIT job.

Note: If you submit the job multiple times but change the setting of the Generate item out triggers flag before the previously submitted job is complete, the system displays an error message: Item out trigger gen opt set differently for submitted job - try again later. Once the submitted job has finished, you can resubmit it with the different item trigger setting.

Initialize Offer Updates

The OFFER_INIT job performs the following updates:

1. If a To offer is defined, the job copies offer and pricing information from the Copy from offer to the Copy to offer.

Affected File	Comments
Cancel Reason Offer	Adds cancel reason offer records for the Copy from offer to records for the Copy to offer.
Exchange Reason Offer	Adds exchange reason offer records for the Copy from offer to records for the Copy to offer.
Return Reason Offer	Adds return reason offer records for the Copy from offer to records for the Copy to offer.
Order Billing History	Adds order billing history records for the Copy from offer to records for the Copy to offer.
Item Offer	Creates an item offer record for the Copy to offer, based on the record for the Copy from offer. Note: If an item offer record already exists for the Copy to offer, the system does not update the Item Offer record.
Item Price	Creates an item price record for the Copy to offer, based on the record for the Copy from offer. Note: If an item price record already exists for the Copy to offer, the system does not update the Item Price record.
SKU Offer	Creates a SKU offer record for the Copy to offer, based on the record for the Copy from offer. Note: If a SKU offer record already exists for the To offer, the system does not update the SKU Offer record.
SKU Price	Creates a SKU price record for the Copy to offer, based on the record for the Copy from offer. Note: If a SKU price record already exists for the Copy to offer, the system does not update the SKU Price record.
SKU Offer Page	Adds SKU offer page records for the Copy from offer to records for the Copy to offer.
Source	• If the Restrict offer’s source codes field is set to N, the system adds source code records for the Copy from offer to records for the Copy to offer and updates the Restricted field for the source code records to N. • If the Restrict offer’s source codes field is set to Y, the system adds source code records for the Copy from offer to records for the Copy to offer and updates the Restricted field for the source code records to Y.
Order Detail	Adds order detail records for the Copy from offer to records for the Copy to offer. Note: The system only performs this update for orders that are in an open, closed, or held status.

2. Deletes records for the Copy from offer in the following files:

• Cancel Reason/Offer records

• Exchange Reason/Offer

• Return Reason/Offer

• Order/Billing History

• Accompanying Item

• Dollar Chart by Offer

• Dollar Discount by Offer

• Free Gift Detail by Offer

• Free Gift Detail by Source

• Free Gift by Offer/Source

• Page Letter Alias

• Item Price

• Item Offer

• Offer Qty Break

• Promotion Pricing

• SKU Offer Page

• SKU Price

• SKU Price History

• SKU Offer

• Telemarketing Special

• Catalog Request Customer Individual

• Catalog Request

3. Updates the Description field for the offer in the Offer file to OFFER INITIALIZED; all other fields for the offer are updated to either 0 or blank.

For more information: See Working with Offers (WOFR).

Offer Initialization Screen

How to display this screen: Enter MOFI in the Fast path field or select this option from a menu.

OER0618 ENTER Offer Initialization 3/28/08 14:39:55 Mail Order Company     Enter the Merge 'from' and Merge 'to' Offer.   The Merge 'to' Offer is not required if you just wish to initialize Offer.     Copy from Offer Copy to Offer   Restrict Offer's Source codes? . . . N (Y,N)   Generate Item Out triggers . . . . . N (Y/N)           F3=Exit F9=Accept F12=Cancel F24=Select company

Field	Description
Copy from offer	The code for the offer from which you want to merge item and pricing data into another offer. If you only wish to initialize an offer, enter the offer code in this field and leave the Copy to offer field blank. Numeric, 3 positions; required.
Copy to offer	The code for the offer to which you want to transfer item and pricing data. Numeric, 3 positions; optional.
Res off source codes (Restrict offer's source codes)	Indicates whether you wish to restrict all source codes added to the To offer. Y = The system adds source code records for the From offer to records for the To offer and updates the Restricted field for the source code records to Y. Restricting a source code prevents it from being assigned to an order. This is useful for source codes you no longer use, but cannot delete since there are still open orders outstanding. N = The system adds source code records for the From offer to records for the To offer and updates the Restricted field for the source code records to N. Alphanumeric, 1 position; required.
Generate item out triggers	Indicates whether to create an outbound interface transaction trigger for each item or SKU whose offer information is updated when you complete this screen. The system creates a trigger with a file type of SKU, indicating to generate an outbound item XML message for the SKU’s. See Generic Item Download API for more information on the outbound XML message. Valid values are: Y = Create a trigger to create an outbound item XML message (CWItemOut) for each updated item or SKU. N = Do not create the triggers for the outbound item XML message. This field defaults to the setting from the last time you used this menu option. If there is no stored setting, the default is Y. See Working with Default Options (WDFT) for information on how the system stores defaults. Note: This field is displayed only if the Create Generic Item Download Trigger Records (I15) system control value is set to Y. Alphanumeric, 1 position; required.