TARGET Sales Management System - Application Notes

UED Advertising Control

The automatic interface in your TARGET system to UEN may be used to control your UED magazine advertising also. This eliminates the need to maintain separate lists or deal with the advertising confirmation sheets. This function will be active only after you return the signed agreement to HSI.

Controlling Advertising

Selecting listings to appear in UED is simple. In addition to the advertising selection code "#" for UEN, just use code "U" to indicate that a listing should appear in the next issue of the UED magazine. Each time you update UEN, this information will be exchanged with the UEN system to keep your selections up to date in that database. Note that this code will work only on machine types I/K/S; it does not work on W listings because the category for wanted listings in UED is not the same as in TARGET & UEN.

Important Dates

HSI staff will pick up your UED listings from UEN on the 13th of each month (or the following Monday if the 13th is on a weekend). You should have your listings updated on TARGET and complete a UEN update by the end of business on the 12th to make sure the correct listings appear in UED. Note that under certain circumstances HSI may have to pick up listings again before the 15th of the month so you should not make changes to your UED advertising for the following month until after the end of business on the 15th.

Listing Rules

There are certain rules that apply to UED listings. The most important is that positioning of listings in the magazine is completely automatic and based on the contents of the category-specific sort fields. The first field is the most important; while the system will not reject a listing that has a blank first positioning field, such a listing will run in the magazine at the bottom of the appropriate category.

Listings are also subject to length limitations. Generally speaking, the in-house description line in TARGET should fit easily in a UED listing line as long as the listing is mixed case. Listings which are all upper case may be too long; if so, they will be truncated when printed in UED. In the current release (19.1) of TARGET, there is no warning of this. If listing length proves to be a problem, we will add a length warning to the TARGET maintenance screens in a future release.

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