Below you will find an overview of all rights available under the category roles. Please note that depending on which Mercury license you have, not all rights/features may be available in your tenant. If you have any questions or requests, please get in touch with your MMT contact.
| Category role | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Manage ad server data | Allows the user to manually reload the AdServer data from the backend into the planning frontend within a campaign. Please only allow a few trained persons to do this after brief consultation with MMT. |
| Trigger ad server data sync | Allows the setting and editing of ad server placement IDs on the planning line within the media plan. This is an essential basic requirement for importing realized delivery data to the plan line. |
| Manage ad server placement IDs | Enables the creation, editing and deletion of fees at category level. |
| Manage agency fee models | Allows existing fees to be edited at category level |
| Edit agency fee models | Allows you to view the fees stored at category level. |
| View agency fee models | Allows you to view the fees stored at category level |
| Copy campaigns | Allows campaigns to be copied |
| Create campaigns | Allows campaigns to be created |
| Delete campaigns | Allows campaigns to be deleted. Note: For this to be possible, the campaign must be empty. This means that you must first ensure that all plan items have been deleted. Then all scenarios must be deleted. Only now does Mercury allow the campaign to be deleted and displays the “Delete” button. |
| List campaigns | Allows the view of campaigns (only the name of the campaign) within the category. If this permission is not granted, the user cannot view which campaigns exist, for example. If at all, a user can then only access the corresponding campaigns via URL. |
| Move campaign | Allows the user to move campaigns from one category to another. Note: Campaigns can only be moved by a user to categories to which they also have access rights. |
| Show campaign | Allows campaigns to be viewed (plan line view) within the category. |
| Edit campaigns | Allows the editing of campaign settings |
| Update preferred agency fee model | Allows the setting of a preferred fee model in the category settings |
| View campaign briefing | Allows the view of campaign briefings in the category settings |
| Edit campaign briefing | Allows editing of campaign briefings in the category settings |
| View categories | Allows you to view categories (category tree) |
| Edit categories | Allows the editing of categories |
| Grant internal approval for plan items | Allows you to set the internal release in the plan |
| Grant external approval for plan items | Allows external approval to be set in the plan |
| Manage category permissions | Allows you to manage category authorizations |
| Move category | Allows categories to be moved. Note: Categories can only be moved by a user to categories to which they also have access rights. |
| Manage contractual data | Allows the editing of contract data |
| Edit contractual data | Allows the editing of existing contract data |
| View contractual data | Allows contract data to be viewed |
| Manage invoicing data | Allows editing of invoice data in the category settings |
| Edit invoicing data | Allows editing of existing invoice data in the category settings |
| View invoicing data | Allows invoice data to be viewed in the category settings |
| Manage plan item labels | Allows the creation, editing and deactivation of labels at category level |
| Copy offers | Allows offers to be copied |
| Create offers | Allows the creation of offers |
| Delete offers | Allows offers to be deleted |
| List offers | Allows offers to be displayed |
| Edit offers | Allows offers to be edited |
| Create plan items | Allows the creation of new plan items in the plan (e.g. by copying) |
| Send availability request emails | Allows availability requests to be sent for plan items created in the plan |
| Perform publisher insertion orders | Allows you to send bookings of individual or multiple schedule lines directly from the system. |
| Send status emails | Allows you to send an e-mail containing the delivery status of one or more planning lines (slight/heavy over/underdelivery or on plan). |
| Edit plan items | Allows the editing of plan items |
| Create scenarios | Allows the creation of scenarios |
| Delete scenarios | Allows scenarios to be deleted |
| Show planning page | Allows you to view the media planning page within the scenario |
| Edit scenarios | Allows the editing of scenarios |
| View technical components | Allows the view of technical modules in the category settings |
| Edit technical components | Allows editing of technical building blocks in the category settings |
| View media plan export configuration | Allows the “Export configuration” function to be viewed in the category settings |
| Manage media plan export configuration | Allows the editing of “Export configurations” in the category settings |
| Use campaign communication | Allows the use of campaign communication within the plan. Note: This may require the IP address of the publisher to be stored in the marketer administration. |
| View reporting center | Allows access to the Reporting Center. Note: Users only ever see the content from the categories to which they have been granted access with this right. |
| Use AdServer API | legacy - not relevant |
| Manage audience segments | Allows the editing and creation of target group segments |
| Manage cost data | Allows the activation or deactivation of the cost sync on a plan line within a campaign. If the permission is not granted, the user cannot activate the cost sync as it is deactivated by default. Mercury only takes the actual costs from the delivering system if the sync is active. Otherwise, Mercury calculates the costs on the basis of the stored price model. |
| Use reporting center | Allows the use (filters etc.) of the Reporting Center. Note: Users only see the content from the categories to which they have been granted access by this right. Furthermore, they require the global role “Use Reporting Center” to use the Reporting Center. |
| Manage reporting presets | Allows the use and editing of reporting presets in the category settings |
| Manage projects | Allows projects to be viewed and edited |
| Manage project roles | Allows the assignment of roles to projects in the category settings |
| Manage plan item table views | Allows the user to create and edit views for the tables within the campaign planning in the category settings |
| View billing periods | Allows access to the billing view within a campaign Comment: Module still under development (alpha) |
| Edit billing periods | Allows the editing of billing periods when creating a category. Note: This can only be set once when creating a new category and cannot be changed afterwards. Comment: Module still under development (alpha) |
Please note that we are constantly adapting and developing the roles and rights management to our modules and features.