Usage Quota Component Properties
Usage quota components have references to one or more usage quota tables in addition to the properties listed in Usage Quota Component Properties.
Property | Description |
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Name | A descriptive name for the usage quota component. Usage quota component names are displayed in My MATRIXX. |
Description | Information about the purpose of the usage quota component. |
External ID | (Optional) Use this field to identify this item in MATRIXX pricing items. An External ID is saved to the pricing configuration file and loaded into the Pricing Database. Set the External ID value to any alphanumeric character that is meaningful to your implementation. An External ID can be used, for example, to relate offers in the MATRIXX system to products in an external pricing plan. It can be used, for example, by the Subscriber Management API to query and purchase product offers and bundle IDs. |
Start Date/Time | The day, month, and year when the usage quota component becomes activated in the
pricing database. For revisions, the start date defaults to the date the revision is created. Setting future start dates allows you to have several inactive revisions, with each one becoming valid as soon as the start date occurs. Only one revision can be active in the system at one time. |
Quantity Selector | Determines whether the component applies to the usage type during rating. The quantity selector property is required for usage price components because a network message using the Diameter Credit-Control application can contain multiple service contexts, each of which can be charged for based on a different used quantity. For example, one streaming media company might charge for a video based on its length (Duration) and another streaming media company might charge for a video based on its size (Data). If the quantity type specified for a price component does not match a quantity type received in a network message, it is skipped and the next price component is examined. |
Usage Quota Table | A table referencing one decision table containing sets of conditions mapped to results.
Each result can be a usage quota profile or a SKIP value. The default result can be set to SKIP or a usage quota profile. The default result sets the value of any result not specified in the table. |