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Create Deal and episodes in Rightsline

From the deal module, Select the ‘PBS License Agreement’ to create.

Enter the desired values for the fields:

• Deal Name- Name of the contract
• Programming Service - Identifies which PBS Distributor
• Effective Date

Add Contacts if you have details.

On the deal , go to catalogs Items tab and Sign.

Now on the choose option to ‘Create New Catalog Item ‘ and select catalog item .

Add the values in series required fields:

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

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

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

•Title Language- defaults to English

•PBS House Sequence - Alpha characters as identifier.

Select the ‘Continue to Associate Contacts’ on the series template.

Select or add contacts as needed and Continue to Auto-Create Child Items.

Select the desired number on catalog item, hierarchical wise like to be created and click on Done:

•          Season Container

•        Season

•        Episode

•        PBS Edit

On the series template, You can also click on the SYNC button  to sync the fields to other catalog items.

You can sync all fields or sync selected fields.

Now go to season and Enter the values in season required fields and click ‘Save’:

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

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

•Season Number – Number for the season 

• PBS House Sequence - - Alpha characters for identifier

Enter the values in episode 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

•Episode Number- Number of the episode

•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 House Sequence - - Alpha numeric characters for identifier 

• Referent Type – If the content is for TV, Web or Shorts .

•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

Enter the values in PBS Edit 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

If the content is for web.

Please add pbs edit for ‘Web’. Like (donkey hokie)

Click on the deal status to update from “Pending” to “Ready for Rights”.

Click on the season status and set to “Ready for Scheduling”.