Overview

Linking a committed Cost Line to a campaign on an external Search provider creates a connection that allows delivery costs and metrics to flow from the Search provider to OneStrata. The delivery data is available on the Actualization tab.

Link a Cost Line to an Existing Search Campaign

To link a Cost Line to an existing search campaign, do the following:

1. Open the media campaign that contains the Cost Line to be linked.
   
   
2. Navigate to the Search dashboard.
   
   
3. In the Search grid, select the desired Cost Line. Only one Cost Line can be linked at a time.
   
   
4. Click the Link button to open the Link widget.
   
   
5. In the Link widget:
   

   Field Name	Action
   Advertiser	Search for an advertiser by entering at least three letters of the advertiser name. Only advertisers that are configured within the linked Search provider are displayed. Select the desired advertiser.
   Campaign	Search for a campaign by entering at least three letters of the search campaign name. Only campaigns that are contained by the selected advertiser are displayed. Select the desired campaign.
   Read-only Date Range	The value of the Date Range field is automatically populated from the selected campaign and cannot be changed within OneStrata.

   
   
   
6. Click the Link button to link the Cost Line.

Unlink a Cost Line from a Search Campaign

To unlink a Cost Line from a search campaign, do the following:

1. Open the media campaign that contains the Cost Line to be unlinked.
   
   
2. Navigate to the Search dashboard.
   
   
3. In the Search grid, select the desired Cost Line. Only one Cost Line can be unlinked at a time.
   
   
4. Click the Unlink button. This opens a message asking the user to confirm that the Cost Line should be unlinked.
   
   
5. Confirm that the Cost Line should be unlinked by clicking the Unlink button. The status of the Cost Line in the Search grid changes from Uploaded to Not Uploaded.