Prerequisites:

- deal is in BV 

- deal is in RL (migrated deal)

- episodes are in BV 

- episodes are not in RL - user needs to create episodes in RL


There are four main sections for the Re-up deal creation in BV:

  1. Deal and Catalog Information is entered
  2. Required fields to be populated
  3. Program items/season associated is not in RL.


Step
Action
Result
1. User will create an episode/OTO which is in BV not in Rightsline.Select Catalog and create Episode in RL.
Catalog template is displayed.
2. Enter the required fields in RL episode/OTO template.

Type the values in episode /OTO required fields:

•    Sort-Friendly Title- The series title with article at the end

•    Display Title- The full series title with article at the beginning

•    Title Language- defaults to English

•    PBS Reporting Category (Primary)- PBS's primary genre

•    PBS Synopsis Short-

240-character official episode synopsis

•    Country of Origin-

Default The country

•    Approx. Length-

Approximation of the episode's total run time

•    PBS NOLA Root-

Alpha Characters that make up complete NOLA code identifier for broadcast

•    PBS NOLA Code-

Numerical characters that make up complete NOLA code identifier for broadcast.

•    Edit Use- Type of Edit (i.e. US broadcast, UK Version, Theatrical)

•    Edit Class- The purpose of the edit

•    Producer- Producer Name

•    Director- Director Name

The following fields are displayed on the episode /OTO template –

•    Sort-Friendly Title

•    Display Title

•    Title Language

•    PBS Reporting Category (Primary)

•    PBS Synopsis Short

•    Country of Origin

•    Approx. Length

•    PBS NOLA Root

•    PBS NOLA Code

•    Edit Use

•    Edit Class

•    Producer

•    Director

3. Go to Episode/OTO, to add pbs_traffic_id value.
On the episode/OTO template, enter the value on the pbs_traffic_id field like cid:org: pbs.org:Broadview-xxxxxxxxPbs_traffic_id value is added on the episode/OTO template.
4. User submit a support ticket, so that the RL ID can be added in Mbank episode.Go to support.pbs.org and create ticket.
Support ticket is submitted
5. After Tier 1/Tier 2 is complete with Mbank work, they will send the reply on the ticket.Tier 1/Tier 2 will reply to users to complete step 6.
Reply is sent back to users.
6. User change the episode/OTO status back to ‘Ready for scheduling’/Ready External Publish’.Click on the episode/OTO template to change the status to ‘Ready for scheduling’/Ready External Publish’.Episode/OTO status is changed in RL.