Price Monitor - Revision history

Horch: /* Displaying Data */

2015-12-08T10:15:25Z

‎Displaying Data

Horch: /* Displaying Data */

2015-12-08T10:10:24Z

‎Displaying Data

Horch: /* Additional information and editing or deleting items */

2015-12-08T10:09:04Z

‎Additional information and editing or deleting items

Horch: /* Job definition */

2015-12-08T10:08:20Z

‎Job definition

Horch: /* Job definition */

2015-12-08T10:06:55Z

‎Job definition

Horch: /* Competitor definition */

2015-12-08T10:05:50Z

‎Competitor definition

Horch: /* Job definition */

2015-12-08T10:05:11Z

‎Job definition

Horch: /* Competitor definition */

2015-12-08T10:04:52Z

‎Competitor definition

Horch: /* Product definition */

2015-12-08T10:04:30Z

‎Product definition

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2015-12-08T10:03:49Z

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	== Displaying Data ==		== Displaying Data ==
	The data is displayed directly in the Price Monitor (if you are in the Configurator click on the Link “Price Monitor”). For displaying data the service requires a time space and a product for which the prices shall be displayed. You need to select a start date by choosing a date in the “From” field as well as an end date by selecting a date of the “To” field. You also need to select a product from the product list beyond the “From” field. By clicking “Submit” the form is send to the system and the data appears in the form of a price table and a price graph as shown in the following Figures.		The data is displayed directly in the Price Monitor (if you are in the Configurator click on the Link “Price Monitor”). For displaying data the service requires a time space and a product for which the prices shall be displayed. You need to select a start date by choosing a date in the “From” field as well as an end date by selecting a date of the “To” field. You also need to select a product from the product list beyond the “From” field. By clicking “Submit” the form is send to the system and the data appears in the form of a price table and a price graph as shown in the following Figures.
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		+	[[File:Price_table.png\|mini\|923px\|Price Monitor - Price Table]]
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		+	[[File:Price_graph.png\|mini\|923px\|Price Monitor - Price Graph]]
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		+	In future versions of the service the users will also be able to filter the competitor products to be displayed within the table and graph based on a similarity value which defines the similarity of the own product to those of the competitors, but this functionality is not implemented, yet.

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	== Displaying Data ==		== Displaying Data ==
		+	The data is displayed directly in the Price Monitor (if you are in the Configurator click on the Link “Price Monitor”). For displaying data the service requires a time space and a product for which the prices shall be displayed. You need to select a start date by choosing a date in the “From” field as well as an end date by selecting a date of the “To” field. You also need to select a product from the product list beyond the “From” field. By clicking “Submit” the form is send to the system and the data appears in the form of a price table and a price graph as shown in the following Figures.

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 The data collection and the corresponding displaying of the actual prices take about 24 hours from job definition. You can add novel products, competitors and jobs on anytime as described. For editing or deleting a product, a competitor or a job press the corresponding button behind the item in the list (see next Figure).
-[[File:Add_job.png|mini|923px|Price Monitor - Add Job]]
+[[File:Edit_delete_item.png|mini|923px|Price Monitor - edit or delete items (products, competitors, jobs)]]
 == Displaying Data ==

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	There have to be defined at least one job for each product. A job needs to specify a product for which the prices shall be collected and all competitors for which those prices shall be collected and compared. Additionally, the system needs to know how often it shall collect the prices what is defined within the field “Frequency”. You can choose one product and multiple competitors for a job from given dropdown lists automatically created from the defined products and competitors of the Price Monitor. The following frequencies can be selected as regular cycle for the data collection: once a day, once a week, once a month or once a year. A new created job is stored within the system after pressing the button “Submit”.		There have to be defined at least one job for each product. A job needs to specify a product for which the prices shall be collected and all competitors for which those prices shall be collected and compared. Additionally, the system needs to know how often it shall collect the prices what is defined within the field “Frequency”. You can choose one product and multiple competitors for a job from given dropdown lists automatically created from the defined products and competitors of the Price Monitor. The following frequencies can be selected as regular cycle for the data collection: once a day, once a week, once a month or once a year. A new created job is stored within the system after pressing the button “Submit”.

		+	=== Additional information and editing or deleting items ===
	The data collection and the corresponding displaying of the actual prices take about 24 hours from job definition. You can add novel products, competitors and jobs on anytime as described. For editing or deleting a product, a competitor or a job press the corresponding button behind the item in the list (see next Figure).		The data collection and the corresponding displaying of the actual prices take about 24 hours from job definition. You can add novel products, competitors and jobs on anytime as described. For editing or deleting a product, a competitor or a job press the corresponding button behind the item in the list (see next Figure).

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 === Job definition ===
 [[File:Add_job.png|mini|923px|Price Monitor - Add Job]]
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 === Competitor definition ===
-[[File:Add_competitor.png|mini|923px|Price Monitor - Competitor]]
+You can enter an arbitrary name for the competitor and the URL of the e-shop website of the competitor. The URL can be any link of the e-shop website of the competitor, it is not necessary to take the URL of the start page. After entering the required information press “Submit” to save the new competitor to the competitor list of the Price Monitor.
 === Job definition ===

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	=== Job definition ===		=== Job definition ===
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		+	[[File:Add_job.png\|mini\|923px\|Price Monitor - Add Job]]

	== Displaying Data ==		== Displaying Data ==

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 The definition of products means to specify the product for which prices shall be collected. You can add a new product by a click on the button “Add product”. An overlay form appears as shown in the following Figure.
-[[File:Add_product.png|mini|923px|]Price Monitor Add Product]
+[[File:Add_product.png|mini|923px|Price Monitor - Add Product]]
 The “Add Product” form requires the information of a product term which corresponds to the name of the product within the own e-shop. After entering the product term press “Submit” to save the novel product to the product list of the Price Monitor.