Skip to main content

Configuring volume constraints

Archived

4 Tasks

10 mins

Visible to: All users
Beginner Pega Customer Decision Hub 8.4 Pega Marketing 8.4 English
This content is now archived and is no longer updated. Progress is not calculated. Pega Cloud instances are disabled, and badges are no longer awarded. Click here to continue your progress in the latest version.

Scenario

U+ Bank, a retail bank, is currently promoting multiple credit card offers by sending emails to qualified customers. The bank now wants to apply some limitations on the outbound volume. The IT department has enforced a channel limit of 50 emails per day. The bank also wants to restrict the number of Standard card offer emails to only 20 per week due to a business requirement.

Use the following credentials to log in to the exercise system:

Role User name Password
Decisioning Analyst CDHAnalyst rules
Caution: In this mission, challenges are built on top of each other. Hence when you click on Initialize Pega or Reset Instance in this challenge, you first need to complete the previous challenge(s).

Your assignment consists of the following tasks:

Task 1: Create new volume constraints

Under Intelligence > Volume Constraints, create new volume constraints at the top level.

Note: The volume constraint must be created at the top level for use in the Next-Best-Action Designer outbound schedule.

Task 2: Configure the volume constraints

Configure the newly created volume constraints to implement the channel limits to 50 emails per day and restrict the number of Standard card offer emails to only 20 per week.

Task 3: Configure a scheduled run

In the Next-Best-Action Designer > Channels tab, configure a schedule run with the newly-created volume constraints.

Note: In the Recurrence section, ensure that the Refresh the audience check box is selected. Also, ensure that the All mailable customers segment is selected as the starting population.

Task 4: Run the schedule and confirm the run results

In the Next-Best-Action Designer > Channels tab, run the schedule and confirm that the results check that only 50 emails are sent and the Standard card action is restricted to a maximum of 20 only.

Challenge Walkthrough

Detailed Tasks

1 Create new volume constraints

  1. Log in as Decisioning Analyst with user name CDHAnalyst and password rules.
  2. From the navigation pane on the left, click Intelligence > Volume Constraints.
    Volume constraints navigation
  3. Click Create.
  4. In the short description field, enter Limit credit card offers.
  5. Leave the Issue and Group blank.
  6. Click Create and Open.
    New volume constraints

2 Configure the volume constraints

  1. In the Edit Volume Constraint screen, click Add definition to add a new volume constraint condition.
  2. In the Maximum volume field, enter 50.
  3. In the Reset interval list, select Daily.
  4. In the Channel list, select Email.
    configure volume constraints
  5. Click Add definition to add another volume constraint condition.
  6. In the Maximum volume field, enter 20.
  7. In the Reset interval list, select Weekly.
  8. In the Channel list, select Email.
  9. In the Action list, select StandardCard.
    action volume constarints
  10. Click Save to save the volume constraint.

3 Configure a scheduled run

  1. In Next-Best-Action Designer, click the Channels tab.
  2. In the Primary Schedule section, click the More icon, and then select Suspend to suspend the current scheduled run.
    suspend run
  3. Click Edit to make changes to the run.
    Edit channel tab
  4. Scroll down to Primary Schedule section, and to the right of Recurrence, click the Gear icon to configure a schedule. run frequency in the Configure outbound schedule window.
    Edit schedule recurrence
  5. In the Start field, enter today’s date. Ensure that the time is current and in the U.S. EST time zone.
  6. Ensure that the Refresh the audience check box is selected.
  7. Click Submit to save outbound schedule and close the Configure outbound schedule window.
    Recurrence window
  8. To the right of Volume Constraints, click the Gear icon to select the volume constraint defined to limit action volume.
    Add volume constraints to schedule run
  9. In the Configure Constraints window, next to the Limit credit card offers tile, click Add to add the volume constraint.
    Add volume constraints
  10. Click Apply to confirm the volume constraint selection and close the pop-up window.
  11. Click Save to save the changes made to the Channels tab.

4 Run the schedule and confirm the run results

  1. In the Channels tab, in the Primary Schedule section, click the More icon and select Run to run the outbound schedule.
    run a schedule
    Note: The status changes to Running when processing begins. An entry for upcoming runs appears in the Run Schedule section.
  2. Refresh the tab to view the latest status of the run.
  3. Once the run is complete, click COMPLETED to view the results. 
    run results
    Note: Notice that only 50 emails are sent as a result of the outbound run. Also, the Standard Card offer is restricted to a maximum of 20. The remaining quota of the volume constraints, if any, in a given interval will be used in the following schedule run.
    Your run results number might not match the numbers shown in the exercise steps as the segment used in the exercise system selects a random sample of 100 customers in each run. 
  4. Navigate to Intelligence -> Volume constraints.
  5. Open Limit credit card offers to view the remaining volume constraints quota.
    remaining offer volume


Available in the following mission:

We'd prefer it if you saw us at our best.

Pega Academy has detected you are using a browser which may prevent you from experiencing the site as intended. To improve your experience, please update your browser.

Close Deprecation Notice