Jun 25, 2004: Retrieving Billing Logs

To record and retrieve billing logs, you'll need to make sure the Billing EX is enabled on your Designer and Players. In Designer you select pages in your Script that will be logged. Then you use Net Manager to retrieve the log files. In Designer: Select the page or video clip you want to track for advertising Click on the button for that page, below the Billing EX heading Click "Track Billing", then Close Save and Publish the Script In Net Manager: Click New Job Open the drop-down menu in Tasks and select More Commands Re-open and select Retrieve Files For Full Path to Folder or File on Player, enter: logs:\bill*.log Click Add Select a Player or Players Select a Trigger Schedule Click OK Click Submit Changes You can wait for the Job to run according to its schedule or run it manually. After the Job has completed, the files can be found in Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Scala\Network Transmission\Receive\Files Each Player's logs will be in a separate folder. The logs are comma delimited format, which can be imported into most database or spreadsheet programs. Log files are named billMMDD.log where MM = month and DD = day. The fields are: PLAYER NAME, SCRIPT NAME, PATH IN SCRIPT TO PAGE, START DATE, START TIME, END DATE, END TIME, CUSTOM TEXT Note that these file are NOT cleaned up by the Player, so you may want to set up another Job to delete old logs after you are sure you've retrieved them. For instance, you could set up 12 Jobs to delete bill01*.log, bill02*.log, etc. to delete a month's worth of logs at a time. Then schedule each to run in the month after the ones you are deleting. Or you could always clean them manually to avoid losing valuable billing data just because the files didn't get retrieved before they were deleted.

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