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Delivery Rule Set management screen

There are two types of Delivery Rules Set. One type is intended for individual websites, but this article is about the other type, which is global for your entire Revive Adserver account.

To access the screen where you can manage global Delivery Rule Sets, you need to first click the Preferences tab in the bar of tabs just under the logo, and then click the Delivery Rule Set Management link in the column on the left.

Adding a new Delivery Rule Set

In a new installation of Revive Adserver, you will first see an empty list of rule sets. To add a new set, simply click the “Add new delivery rule set” link at the top of the list.

Naming the Delivery Rule Set

The first thing that must be done is to enter a name for the new Delivery Rule Set. Make sure to enter a name that will be easy to recognize later, to make your work and that of your colleagues simple in the future.

For this article, we’re creating a rule set to easily target several sections of a large news website that attracts business to business visitors. We’re calling the rule set “B2B sections”.

You can add a description and a comment for future reference as well.

Once you’ve entered these bits of data, click the Save changes button to proceed. The list of Delivery Rule Sets will be displayed, with the new rule set in place, and a notification informing you about the outcome.

In this notification, there is also a link that you can click to go directly to the screen where you can define the rules for the new set. You can also click the link for each of your Rule Sets.

Defining the rules in the Delivery Rule Set

The screen where you can define the rules for a Rule Set is virtually identical to the equivalent screen for an individual banner. Simply pick the rule you need and click the add button, and then define the appropriate details.

Here is an example of targeting the sections of a news website with the terms /finance/ , /business/, /management/ , and /markets/ in the page URL.

Don’t forget to click Save changes.

How to apply a Delivery Rule Set to a Banner

Once a Delivery Rule Set has been created, you can apply it to any new or existing banner. To do so, navigate to the banner and click the Delivery Options tab.

Now open the drop down for the “Add delivery rule” control, and pick the “Site – Delivery Rule Set” option. Next, click the “add” button.

The screen reloads and now you will see a delivery rule enabling you to pick any of your pre-defined sets. Right now there is only one, but if there were more, you could even select more than one.

Keep in mind that you could have delivery rules sets that contradict each other, resulting in the banner not delivering at all.

Clicking the little arrow behind the set name will open the definition of the rule set in a new tab, so that you can double check that it is the right one.

Don’t forget to save the changes to the banner.

Combining Delivery Rule Sets and Delivery Rules

On a banner, you can use delivery rules and sets in combination. Here is an example of the B2B set we defined earlier, with a rule to display the banner only on weekdays.