Bulk Importing Ad Tools

Article Topic: Ad Tools

Not only can you import your Ad Tools individually through the Ad Tools Admin, you can also use the Bulk Import feature found in NATS to import all of your Ad Tools for specific Ad Tool types in NATS as well.

This allows you to quickly add any number of Ad Tools that you wish to offer to your affiliates to NATS in no time at all, letting affiliates promote your sites with no delay.

The Bulk Import feature is available for a few different Ad Tool types in NATS. This includes Banner Ad Tools (Static/Animated Banners and Flash Banners), Hosted Ad Tools (Free Hosted Galleries and Hosted Free Sites), and Downloadable Ad Tools (Content).

Locating the Bulk Import Option

To begin performing bulk imports of your existing Ad Tools, navigate to the Ad Tool Management tab of the Ad Tools Admin. Click the Actions option beside the Ad Tool type you wish to Bulk Import that supports Bulk Importing such as your banners, free hosted galleries, hosted free sites, and downloadable content Ad Tools.

Next select "Bulk Import Assets" from the drop-down menu.

Banners

Performing a bulk import of your Banner Ad Tools uses the same process for all Ad Tools of that type: Static Banners, Animated Banners, and Flash Banners.

Once you have selected the Bulk Import Assets option, you will need to fill out some fields to set additional details about your imported Ad Tools.

This includes:

• Enabled on - Choose which of your sites you want to make these adtools available for. You can choose a specific site, all sites, or no sites.

• Publish Date - Enter the date that you want to begin making your imported banners available from. You can enter a Freeform Date here, or enter your desired publish date using Year-Month-Day (yyyy-mm-dd) form.

• Default Group - Choose how you want to categorize your newly imported adtools by choosing an Adtool Group from this drop-down menu.

In order to bulk import your Banner Ad Tools in NATS, you must first place all of your desired banner Ad Tool files into a ZIP file that contains only the static, animated, or flash banner files you wish to add.

Please Note: Any ZIP file that you want to bulk import your Ad Tools with cannot have any subdirectories in the file. Please place all of your files into the main directory of your ZIP file, otherwise, your banner Ad Tools will not be imported correctly.

Lastly, you will be greeted with the Confirmation page where you can finalize your options.

Galleries and Content

Performing a bulk import of your Hosted Ad Tools uses a similar process for both Ad Tools of this type -- this includes Free Hosted Galleries, Hosted Free Sites, and Downloadable Content.

Once you have selected the Bulk Import Assets option, you will need to fill out fields similar to that of the Banners with the added option "Ignore Duplicate" to choose whether or not you want to include or ignore duplicate hosted Ad Tool files.

In order to bulk import your Hosted Ad Tools in NATS, you must first create a dump of your Free Hosted Galleries and Hosted Free Sites. NATS supports Ad Tool dumps using various separators and line endings.

Please Note: NATS allows file uploads up to 2 MB per file by default. If you would like to upload any Ad Tools larger than that, please increase the post_max_filesize and upload_max_filesize settings for PHP (found in PHP.ini).

Next, copy and paste the full text of your Ad Tool dump into the blank "Raw Dump Data" field on this page, then use the "Import Fields" section to define what information fields are included in this dump, as well as the order they are included in.

The available Import fields here includes Name, URL, # Pics/Clips, Description, and Thumbnail. You can also choose to add Overrides with these drop-down menus, which allow you to change certain details about your Hosted Ad Tools import. Alongside these settings, further customization is available with the Column Separator, Line Ending, and Text Delimeter options.

If you have fewer fields in your Ad Tool dump than the number of drop-down menus available here, simply choose "Blank" from the unused drop-down menus in this section.

Once you have entered your Free Hosted Gallery or Free Sites Adtool dump and defined all of the fields in your Ad Tool dump with the "Import Fields" drop-down menus, you can move on to the confirmation page.

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