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The following information describes the tasks that can be performed using the My MATRIXX Home menu.
Pricing Construction / Loading
Pricing Construction / Loading contains interfaces that enable you to schedule, compile, and validate a production version and a development version of a pricing configuration file. After the pricing compilation has been scheduled and compiled, it can be loaded and deployed onto an engine. If your engine has multiple sub-domains, each sub-domain must have the same base pricing loaded or a version of the same base pricing. You must have proper permissions to perform these tasks.
Validating the Price Plan and Viewing Errors
The price plan is the collective set of all items that you can create/edit in My MATRIXX. When you validate the price plan, you are checking all the files in your local workspace that you have changed along with any files updated in your workspace others may have changed. During pricing validation, My MATRIXX checks that pricing items are correctly defined (with required values) and checks the pricing schema against the schema definitions of the running engine (or MATRIXX configuration file) that it points to.
Validate the Price Plan
When you validate the price plan in My MATRIXX, you are checking all the files in your local workspace that you have changed and any files updated in your workspace others may have changed. During pricing validation, My MATRIXX checks that pricing items are correctly defined (with required values) and checks the pricing schema against the schema definitions of the running engine (or MATRIXX configuration file) that it points to.

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- About My MATRIXX Help
  My MATRIXX Help provides information about My MATRIXX, a web application that offers a central location for creating pricing plans and configuring MATRIXX charging and rating behaviors. My MATRIXX is intended for pricing administrators who are responsible for creating and maintaining pricing plans and for IT administrators or developers who configure the rating and charging behavior of the online charging system.
- Introducing My MATRIXX
  The following information describes the My MATRIXX interface.
- Using My MATRIXX
  You use My MATRIXX to validate and compile the pricing configuration file, compile pricing, and set up and manage user roles and domains; create and manage catalog items and catalogs, manage eligibility features and rules, and manage the Normalizers interface; create and manage balances, pricing, offers and bundles, general components, and application-related components; and policies for charging and rating. Use General Configuration to create components that support pricing items and charging functionality such as announcements pricing components, attribute definitions, denial codes, products, decision tables, Final Unit Indication (FUI) profiles and generators, general ledger transaction types, notification profiles, normalizer templates, and subscriber information query actions, profiles, and generators.
- Home Menu
  The following information describes the tasks that can be performed using the My MATRIXX Home menu.
  - Home Menu Tasks
    Use the Home menu to perform the following tasks:
  - Pricing Construction / Loading
    Pricing Construction / Loading contains interfaces that enable you to schedule, compile, and validate a production version and a development version of a pricing configuration file. After the pricing compilation has been scheduled and compiled, it can be loaded and deployed onto an engine. If your engine has multiple sub-domains, each sub-domain must have the same base pricing loaded or a version of the same base pricing. You must have proper permissions to perform these tasks.
    - Scheduling and Managing Pricing Compilations
      Before a pricing plan can be used, it must be scheduled for compilation. You can compile either a development or production pricing compilation. A single pricing compilation can be deployed to multiple engines.
    - Validating the Price Plan and Viewing Errors
      The price plan is the collective set of all items that you can create/edit in My MATRIXX. When you validate the price plan, you are checking all the files in your local workspace that you have changed along with any files updated in your workspace others may have changed. During pricing validation, My MATRIXX checks that pricing items are correctly defined (with required values) and checks the pricing schema against the schema definitions of the running engine (or MATRIXX configuration file) that it points to.
      - Validate the Price Plan
        When you validate the price plan in My MATRIXX, you are checking all the files in your local workspace that you have changed and any files updated in your workspace others may have changed. During pricing validation, My MATRIXX checks that pricing items are correctly defined (with required values) and checks the pricing schema against the schema definitions of the running engine (or MATRIXX configuration file) that it points to.
      - View Price Plan Errors
        When you validate the price plan, My MATRIXX generates the set of pricing errors found and displays them in the error list. The errors for a particular pricing item can also be viewed from that item's edit page.
      - Correct Price Plan Errors
        When you validate a price plan, My MATRIXX generates a page with a navigable, dynamic list of pricing errors and warnings about objects defined in the price plan that are not in use. You access this error list by clicking the error count displayed on the upper right corner of My MATRIXX next to your username and domain.
      - Unused Object Types that Produce a Warning
        When validating a price plan, My MATRIXX checks that pricing items are correctly defined (with required values) and checks the pricing schema against the schema definitions of the running engine (or MATRIXX configuration file) that it points to. If the price plan includes pricing items that are defined but not used, My MATRIXX prints warning messages for the types of unused objects listed here.
    - Managing Engine Connections
      The Manage Engine Connections page provides a dashboard showing a list of known engine connections for the selected domain. If an engine connection is used by multiple domains, the connection is listed in each domain's Manage Engine Connections page. The domain's engine connections determine where its pricing compilations can be loaded for deployment, and where US tax compilations can be loaded for deployment.
  - Pricing Repository
    The Pricing Repository interfaces enable you to view a history of changes made to a _glossary/pricing_domain.html, to view a list of files that have been changed in a domain, and to synchronize your local workspace with the _glossary/pricing_repository.html by updating, committing, and reverting files in your pricing domain.
  - Administration
    Administration interfaces enable you to set up and manage user roles, domains, and notes.
  - System
    System interfaces enable you to manage the mdc_config_custom.xml file, manage workspace health, and view the status of running web applications and the configuration they are using.
- Catalog Configuration
  Catalog Configuration contains the Catalog Items interface that you use to create, change, or delete catalog items; the Eligibility interface to manage eligibility features and rules to determine whether a subscriber, group, or device is eligible for a catalog item; and the Normalizers interface you use to edit normalizers.
- Charging Configuration
  Charging Configuration has the interfaces you use to create and manage balance, pricing, product offer and bundle, general, and application-related components.
- Policy Configuration
  Policy configuration components are used by MATRIXX Charging Application and MATRIXX Policy Application for charging and rating.
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Validate the Price Plan

When you validate the price plan in My MATRIXX, you are checking all the files in your local workspace that you have changed and any files updated in your workspace others may have changed. During pricing validation, My MATRIXX checks that pricing items are correctly defined (with required values) and checks the pricing schema against the schema definitions of the running engine (or MATRIXX configuration file) that it points to.

Before you begin

My MATRIXX must be configured to point to an upgraded running engine to enable pricing validation and access to any pricing schema extensions. This configuration task is part of setting up an initial installation of My MATRIXX. For more information, see the discussion about configuring My MATRIXX in MATRIXX Web App Administration. If My MATRIXX is configured to point to a MATRIXX Engine, the engine must be running and up-to-date with the production engine.

Note: Custom MATRIXX data containers (MDCs) are defined in the /opt/mtx/conf/mdc_config_custom.xml file.

About this task

If either engine is not up-to-date, validation errors can occur if the pricing schema references MDCs and MDC field definitions that do not exist in the targeted engine or configuration file. If you are certain the production engine contains these MDCs and fields, you can ignore the errors. In such cases, the generated pricing configuration XML file should be validated again before you load it into the engine by using the convert_price_plan.jar utility that is pointing to an up-to-date MATRIXX Engine configuration.

Procedure

In Pricing Construction / Loading, click View Errors.
In Pricing Errors, click Refresh at the top of the page.
My MATRIXX validates the price plan and lists any pricing errors found. For information about errors displayed, see the discussion about viewing price plan errors.