How to add new Ad Tool Types

Article Topics: Ad Tools

To add a new Ad Tool type, you first need to go to the Ad Tool Management page. Once there, click the "Add New" button at the top-right corner of the page and click "New Ad Tool Type."

Once this is clicked, a widget will appear, where you will have to fill in the following information:

• Name: The name of your new ad tool type.

• Description: A description for your ad tool type.

• Category: Click on the drop-down menu to choose the category you want to place your new type.

• Display Template: Template used for displaying the Ad Tool

• Form Template: Template used for displaying the Ad Tool

Once you are finished filling in the information, click the "Save" button, and the ad tool type will appear under the corresponding category.

Ad Tool Templates

NATS offers the ability to edit each Ad Tool type to control the template that will be used to display it. This can be done through the Ad Tools Admin.

You can also override this setting in the display_adtools or nats_display_adtools Smarty function call if you wish.

The following explains how to control the Ad Tool templates:

• Pass in tpl=xx to set the base template name.

• Pass in view=yyy to set the view.

  • This will append _cust_yyy to the base template name for custom Ad Tool types, and will append _yyy to the base template name for Ad Tool types that are already built in to NATS.

Passing in no tpl will result in NATS using the default template set for the Ad Tool type, while passing in no view will result in NATS using _min for the Ad Tool type.

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