How to calculate Progress for line items in DFP

[via.h...@gmail.com]

Hi Team,

We are calculating the progress percentage for line items  as below:

progress = (Actual Delivery Percentage/ % of time elapsed)* 100

and we are taking Actual delivery percentage from delivery indicator in DFP.

Please let us know that how % of time elapsed calualted in DFP .

Thanks,

[Nicholas Figeac (DFP API Team)]

Hello,

I have responded to you on the other thread. This is a product level question. In the future, you should contact the Product forum. Please do not create duplicate threads.

Thanks,
Nicholas Figeac, DFP API Team

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Thanks Nicholas. How to calculate progress percentage for line items using DFP API.

[Nicholas Figeac (DFP API Team)]

Hello,

Currently LineItem objects do not have a way to retrieve the progress of a line item via API. In reportService you can run a report with dimension attribute LINE_ITEM_DELIVERY_INDICATOR but that will only give you the following percentages for a line items progress:

100% - The LineItem is on track to deliver in full as per LineItem.unitsBought.
> 100% - The LineItem is on track to overdeliver.
< 100% - The LineItem is on track to underdeliver.
N/A - The LineItem does not have any quantity goals, or there is insufficient information about the LineItem.

[dreamerdad]

Nicholas -  Any chance that the API will provide the actual delivery indicator percentage? This is quite important for us as a delivery indicator percentage of 180% is very different from a percentage of 100%. We face serious consequences when we under-deliver so being able to see and take action in relation to the ones closer to 100% is extremely important. And the larger the publisher you are dealing with, the more important this becomes.

[Nicholas Figeac (DFP API Team)]

Hello,

A line item object will give you the actual deliver percentage that is stored in a DeliveryIndicator type. However in the original question, API currently does not support the progress percentage of a line item via line item service. As to when a line item progress percentage will be supported via API please follow our blog for upcoming releases.