Contracts and licenses are - just like programs, series and material - the basic elements of the ContentExplorer. Contracts and licenses are often linked to the CE elements programs, series and trailers. The editing can be controlled by using several workflows.
Contracts represent the relation between body corporates in all stages of proceeding. All contracts are recorded by the license administration within the ContentExplorer. The licenses represent the positions of a contract. The license data present the commercial basis of the scheduling process as they determine how often a program or series may be scheduled and broadcast as run or rerun.
Contract annexe can be stored with the contracts optionally, with a reference to the main contract.
The following two figures show the relation between CE elements and between contracts, licenses and programs:

License Selling Process

Notice:

The license selling process is only relevant for license distributors.

Purchase and Sales Licenses

Contracts, licenses and windows can be linked with their purchase counterpart. This enables dependencies between purchases and sales.

If a purchase license is linked to a sales license, the number of runs is calculated as follows:

Purchase: Purchase license minus number of sales licenses
Sales: Number of runs of the windows

Whether a contract is a purchase or a sales contract, can be defined with the contract category. In order to do this, go to Admin > Edit parameter > Contract category and edit the column Contract type.

There are the following contract types:

Contract Type	Description
N	Neutral
A	Purchase
V	Sales
I	Interal

The same classification is also possible for License Types.

Utilization Pattern

With the Utilization pattern you can automatically generate purchase windows for purchase licenses. Read more here:

5.5 Utilization pattern

Rights Graph

The rights graph shows you the purchased and sold rights. It can be found in the details area License > Rights gr..

License Graph

The license graph shows you all purchase and sales licenses. It can be found in the details area License > License gr..

Window Graph

The window graph shows you all purchase and sales windows. It can be found in the details area License > Window gr..

Availability Analysis

To analyse the availability of licenses, please use the Availability Analysis.

Availability of Single Titles

You can also request the availabilty of single titles, by going to License > Availability in the details area.

Utilization Analysis

The Utilization Analysis finds all purchase windows which have not been sold yet.