Matched Actions

This page provides instructions for the creation of Actions for matched PNR's. This is Step 3 of the rule creation flow.

The Actions page lets you determine what actions are taken when PNR matches the criteria defined in the Triggers of the rule. You can create one or more actions for each rule. Always remember to add a queue action to your rule. Queue action is the only mandatory action.

The functionality of this page depends on the configuration of the Triggers. If you’ve created no Trigger groups, one Trigger group, or if you created multiple Trigger groups and selected the operator And in the Match Triggers dropdown, are able to create only one set of actions.

If you created multiple Trigger groups and selected the operator Or in the Match Triggers dropdown, you are able to create a set of actions per each Trigger group. In this case, you see a reference to each trigger group created in the previous step, including where the if matched, stop here was selected.

For example, if you are creating a schedule change rule you can handle minor and major schedule change scenarios with just one rule by creating two Trigger groups: one for your minor schedule changes and one for your major schedule changes. You can set different actions to your minor and major schedule change Triggers.

A PA Audit remark with time and date stamp is added to the notepad remarks of the PNR when an action is successfully executed. E.g., ACCEPT CHANGE BOOKING UPDATED 18MAY 0750, MOVE FROMQ 16 TO Q45 SUCCESS 18 MAY 0752

Adding one set of actions

Click the + Add Action button to display the action options. Select one or more of the following actions to perform when the trigger criteria is met.
Note: At least one action must be a Queue action.

Accept Changes

This action processes schedule changes.

  1. Enter a description of the activity in the Task Description (optional) text box.

  2. Select one of the following options for an acceptance criteria:

    • Accept changes accepts every change for the PNR.

    • Accept changes and remove UN segment(s) accept changes and removes any canceled (UN) segments, as UN segments cannot be changed to confirmed (HK) segments and must be removed from the PNR.

  3. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  4. Click Confirm to confirm your actions, or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

Fares and Ticketing Actions

Auto-Ticketing

Auto-Ticketing lets you use this template to complete your ticketing details.

  • Productivity Automator reviews each filed fare separately within a PNR, and transmits MIR and Itinerary files for each filed fare as it is ticketed successfully. For filed fares that do not issue, there is no MIR and / or Itinerary produced.

  • Use the issue modifiers you want added at the time of ticketing.

  1. Enter a description of the auto-ticketing activity in the Task Description (optional) field.

  2. Enter the associated PCC for auto-ticketing in the ISSUE PCC field.

  3. Select which document production is required using the radio buttons. Options available are:

    • No ticket - will not issue a ticket but look to transmit MIR/Itinerary files only as required.

    • Printerless - will reflect AAT settings and bypass ticket printer address requirement.

    • Printer – will issue E-ticket to printer address specified.

  4. Enter the issue address in at least one of the following optional fields:

    1. Enter the address for the associated printer in the Issue Ticketing Printer Address field.

    2. Enter the MIR (Machine Interface Record) data hand-off from the Galileo System to a Back Office System in the Issue MIR Address field.

    3. Enter the Itinerary address in the Issue Itinerary Address field.

  5. Optionally, in the Ticket Modifiers area:

    1. Select the payment type from the Form of Payment drop-down menu.

    2. Select either Amount or Percentage from the Commission drop-down menu and enter the value for commission.

    3. Enter the associated tour code in the Tourcode text box to store the tour code in the filed fare before ticket issuance.

    4. Select an option from the Bulk or Inclusive Tour drop-down list. This option stores an Inclusive (IT) or Bulk Tour modifier into the filed fare before ticket issuance.

  6. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  7. Click Confirm to confirm your actions or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

Refiling Expired Fare

By adding Refiling expired fare action to your rule, if a filed fare has an expired filed fare (FCPI status code of X ) then the refile action will reprice according to the pricing entry stored in the filed fare.

Note: If a fare quote best buy (FQBB) and subsequently a rebook (FQBBK) had been used on the original pricing, when the reprice takes place, Productivity Automator uses FQBB and FQBBK to store the filed fare by default, regardless of the refile conditions set in the action, rejects fare basis, and the amount increase / decrease of 1 is applied. This is so that if the fare had changed on the FQBBK then this fails repricing, ‘X’ status filed fare remains in the booking, and the failure handler is executed.

To add Refiling expired fare action to your rule:

  1. Enter a description of the action in the Task Description (optional) field.

  2. Set optional refile conditions. The refile conditions by default have the reject if fare basis is different check box selected. This is optional and can be unchecked. However, if on refile the fare basis had changed, the fare is repriced regardless.

  3. A tolerance level can also be set, which compares the expired filed fare with the reprice, and if the tolerance by amount or percent and fare increases and/or decrease is not met, then the refile does not take place.

  4. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  5. Click Confirm to confirm your actions or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

Refiling Historical Fare

The Refiling Historical Fare action lets you refile a current (.H) or historical (.T) fare and set tax conditions. It will reprice using historical fares with current taxes or historical fares with taxes, and set conditions to apply the reprice. The action stores the filed fare(s) only. To issue the ticket, the auto-ticketing action must be added.

Certain fares, like ITX, allow for a historical fare quote to apply to the fare and taxes on a historical date, e.g., FQ.T11MAR23.

If the historical fare is unavailable, you have the option to refile the fare. By using the optional refile conditions, a tolerance (either by amount or percentage) can be set to ensure that the refiled fare is within the desired range.

  1. Optionally, enter a description for the action in the Task description field.

  2. Set the reprice conditions:

    • Current taxes (.H). E.g., FQ.TDDMMMYY

    • Historical taxes (.T). E.g., FQ.HDDMMMYY

  3. Optionally, Set the refile conditions. If the pricing entry on the original fare quote is a best buy (FQBB), it reprices using best buy book (FQBBK), but rejected if the fare basis is different and a fare tolerance of +/- 1 is applied to ensure flights are not rebooked to different booking classes. If the historical fare is unavailable, you have the option to refile the fare. By using the optional refile conditions, a tolerance (either by amount or percentage) can be set to ensure that the refiled fare is within the desired range.

    1. Optionally, select the Reject if fare basis is different check box.

    2. Select a Fare Increase and/or Fare decrease option. Choose Amount or Percentage, and enter a tolerance level amount to apply to the refiled fares. If the fare amount has increased or decreased by the value specified, the refile does not take place and the failure handler is executed.

  4. Optionally, Set the tax conditions.

    1. Add one or more Tax codes using a comma to separate the values.

    2. Select whether to apply the tax to the Current value or the Historical value.

    3. In the Tax increase and/or Tax decrease sections, select Amount or Percentage, and enter a tolerance level amount to apply to the refiled tax. If the tax amount has increased or decreased by the amount or percentage specified, the refile does not take place and the failure handler is executed.

    4. Optionally, click the New Tax button to add another tax condition.

  5. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  6. Click Confirm to confirm your actions or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

 

File Finish

The File Finish action adds remarks to the PNR (e.g., Notepad remarks).

Note: Prior to Productivity Automator release 1.17, logic prevented Productivity Automator from executing if doing so would create a duplicate notepad or historical notepad remark; such rules would instead execute the failure handler. This logic would also stop a notepad or historical remark from being entered twice by the File Finish action. With release 1.17, this logic has now been removed, allowing the File Finish action to add a notepad or historical notepad remark should the same remark already exist.

  1. Enter a description of the finishing activity in the Task Description (optional) field.

  2. Select the type of remark from the Remark Type drop-down menu. Some options provide a secondary selection option to clarify the Remark type.

    • Unassociated

    • Notepad - Notepad type

      • Notepad

      • Historical

    • SSR

    • OSI

    • Document instruction (DI.) - Prefix

      • FT - Freeform text

      • CR - Canned remark

      • AC - Accounting

      • X - Freeform accounting (supports Travelport GlobalWare users, a travel agency management system providing full accounting and reporting)

  3. Enter the remark text to be added to the PNR in the Remark field.

  4. Click the next to the Remark field to select extracts from the booking with the extract list.

  5. Select the + New remark button to add any further remarks to the booking. This opens a new Remark type dropdown allowing you to repeat the process to add additional remarks.

  6. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  7. Click Confirm to confirm your actions or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

NDC Actions

NDC Auto-Ticketing Action

The NDC auto-ticketing lets you use this template to complete your NDC ticketing details. The screen includes a link to a matrix of NDC airlines currently supported by this ticketing action.

  • Productivity Automator reviews each filed fare separately within a PNR, and transmits MIR and Itinerary files for each filed fare as it is ticketed successfully. For filed fares that do not issue, there is no MIR and / or Itinerary produced.

To use this action:

  1. Select NDC auto-ticketing: Issue an NDC ticket.

  2. Click the Supported NDC airlines link to shows a matrix of NDC airlines supported by Productivity Automator and review which airlines can be used with NDC auto-ticketing.

  3. Optionally, enter text of the auto-ticketing activity in the Task description field.

  4. Select a radio button for which Document production (ticket issuance) is required:

    • NDC ticket: This option will look to issue the ticket of a book and held NDC PNR..

    • No ticket (MIR and/or itinerary production only): This option sends PNR for MIR and/or Itinerary production only.

  5. Optionally, enter the MIR and/or Itinerary address.

    • Enter the MIR (Machine Interface Record) data hand-off from the Galileo System to a Back Office System in the MIR Address field.

    • Enter the Itinerary address in the Itinerary Address field.

      Note: Ticket printer address requirement is bypassed for NDC PNRs.

  6. Optionally, select a Ticket modifier (for use with NDC ticket only) option.

    • Select the Override PNR form of payment to Cash ticket modifier option, for use with NDC ticket only, which overrides the form of payment within the held PNR to Cash.

    • When selected, if there is any other Form Of Payment (FOP) within the PNR, or no FOP within the PNR, Productivity Automator requests the NDC ticket to be issued as Cash FOP.

  7. Click Confirm to confirm your actions or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

    Note: Currently, the NDC auto-ticketing action supports FOP cash only.

NDC PNR Sync

The NDC PNR sync action checks Queue 11 for any NDC bookings with schedule changes and performs a sync to retrieve the most up-to-date booking information.

When an airline updates an NDC booking with a schedule change or partial cancellation, this is received by Travelport and placed on Queue 11. The booking must then be synced to ensure it contains the most up-to-date information. When the sync is complete, the user must set up a Queue move action to move the booking to the desired queue and designate actions for the schedule change booking on a second rule.

Note: An NDC airline who cancels a booking in its entirety automatically syncs the Travelport PNR and the PNR is placed on Queue 23.

The sync happens automatically. Changes are automatically accepted.

  1. Enter a description of the finishing activity in the Task Description (optional) field. The NDC PNR Sync Matched Action is otherwise not configurable.

  2. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  3. Click Confirm to confirm your actions, or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal..

Note: As part of the rule creation for NDC PNR sync, a user should configure a failure handler for any instance where the sync between the GDS and the airline fails.

  • In case of a sync failure, Productivity Automator captures the error response that is required by the helpdesk for troubleshooting why the sync failed. This can be captured within the failure handler in a “Send email” action using the FailureRemark PNR extract and will also be shown within the PNR audit page.

  • A known issue to be aware of is that, at present, we are unable to use the “File finish” action within the failure handler to document the PNR with the error response. This is due to the size of the error reaching the maximum notepad characters.

  • See Schedule Change NDC Triggers for what to do once bookings have been synced and moved to the desired queue from Queue 11 for actioning.

Identify if a PNR sync is required for NDC schedule changes

When an NDC involuntary schedule change is received by Travelport, it is received as an Order Change Notification (OCN). The PNR is placed on Queue 11 (Q/11), and the PNR’s header line includes the message “NDC CONTENT HAS CHANGED - SERVICE VIA NDC WEB PLUGIN” as illustrated in the following screen shot.

When a rule running the NDC PNR sync action on Q11 sees this and the NDC identifier banner in the PNR - NDC CONTENT HAS CHANGED - SERVICE VIA NDC WEB PLUGIN & PNR CONTAINS NDC AIR SEGMENTS-SERVICE VIA SMARTPOINT NDC APP, Productivity Automator performs the sync action and all other actions within the rule. The final queue action is to move the PNR to a success queue (unless the sync fails and it goes to the failure handler path).

  • If there are no NDC identifier banners in the PNR, Productivity Automator does not perform a sync. Instead, it adds the notepad remark NO NDC SEGMENTS EXIST - NO SYNC REQD. Other actions on the rule, if valid, execute.

  • If there is the NDC PNR identifier, PNR CONTAINS NDC AIR SEGMENTS-SERVICE VIA SMARTPOINT NDC APP in the PNR, Productivity Automator does not perform a sync. Instead, it adds the notepad remark NDC PNR SYNC NOT REQD. Other actions on the rule, if valid, execute.

Queue Actions

The Queue actions determines the next steps for the associated PNR in your queue. Selecting an action in this category is mandatory to continue to the next step. Choose to either move the PNR to a queue or remove the PNR from a queue.

Move to queue

This action moves the PNR to another queue within the same PCC or via a specified PCC in the action. It is automatically removed from the original queue.

  1. Enter a description of the action in the Task Description (optional) text box.

  2. Select a radio button for Location Details:

    • Don’t change PNR PCC location: The PCC as defined in the rule setup is used for the queue move action.

    • Specify New PCC: The entered PCC is used for the queue move action.

  3. Enter a queue number to move the PNR when the action is triggered in the Queue Number field.

  4. Optionally, enter a two-digit alpha or numeric queue category descriptor in the Category field. E.g., 12 or CK. This entry cannot be a combination of alphanumeric, e.g., K7.

  5. Optionally, select a date range to prioritize PNRs by date in the Date Range drop-down menu. A queue category is required before selecting a date range. Options are D1 - D4.

  6. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  7. Click Confirm to confirm your actions, or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

Note: Move to queue action automatically removes the PNR from the original queue. Therefore, there’s no need to create Remove from queue action if Move to Queue Action is created.

Remove from Queue

This action removes the PNR from the current queue when the trigger activates.

  1. Enter a description of the action in the Task Description (optional) text box.

  2. Select whether you want to remove the PNR from any other queues (1-99).

    • Multiple values are accepted.

    • Use comma to separate the queue numbers.

  3. Optionally, select Multiple queue remove to remove from multiple queues.

  4. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  5. Click Confirm to confirm your actions, or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

    6. Note: When a Queue action (Move to queue or Remove from queue) is added to your action builder, it is always placed as the last action. The order can be amended for all other actions except for Queue.

  1. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  2. Click Confirm to confirm your actions, or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

Send Email

The Send Email action lets you create an email that is sent to the agent and/or traveler when the rule is triggered. Use the plus (+) buttons to add PNR extracts, such as agentEmail, passengerEmail, departureDate, PNR, etc. A PNR extract pulls information from the PNR to add into your email.
Notes:

  • agentEmail PNR extract pulls data from the MF field in the PNR. PassengerEmail PNR extract pulls data from the MT field in the PNR.

  • Productivity Automator also checks the Phone field in the PNR if emails are not found in the MT/MF fields.

  1. Enter a description of the action in the Task Description (optional) text box.

  2. Enter one or more email addresses in the To field.

    • The email addresses can be pulled from PNR by clicking on + button or typed. A combination of manually entered addresses and PNR extract is accepted.

    • Click CC to carbon-copy an email to one or more recipients.

    • Click BCC to blind-carbon-copy an email to one or more recipients.

  3. The From field is prepopulated to use noreply@travelport.com.

  4. Optionally, add a Sender display name.

  5. Enter a subject line for the email in the Subject field or click the + button to select from a list of available PNR extracts.

  6. Optionally, add text in the Email field.

    • Click the button to pull required information from PNR by adding a PNR extract.

    • Format the text using the B to bold highlighted text, or i to italicize highlighted text.

    • Highlight text and click the hyperlink button to add a URL in the associated text field. Click Save to add the URL to the email.

    • Click H1, H2, or Blockquote to format text with those styles.

  7. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  8. Click Confirm to confirm your actions, or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

NDC users may use the combination of the extracts PreviousItineraryInfo and CurrentItineraryInfo to generate a table showing a booking's old schedule compared to its new, current schedule, similar to traditional bookings.

Send ViewTrip Itinerary

The Send ViewTrip Itinerary action sends an itinerary to your customer.

  1. Enter a description of the action in the Task Description (optional) text box.

  2. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  3. Click Confirm to confirm your actions, or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

Ticket Revalidation

Add a ticket revalidation action to your rule to handle time and date schedule change scenarios for all tickets that have already been issued.

  1. Enter a description of the action in the Task Description (optional) text box.

  2. Optionally, in the Set the ticket revalidation conditions area, select the Reject if the segment status code is not HK to determine whether Productivity Automator automatically includes logic to identify if an airline has already performed a revalidation action.

  3. Optionally, enter Airline exclusions to exclude these airlines from the tickets that will be eligible for revalidation.

  4. Optionally, if available, select a Copy action setting.

  5. Click Confirm to confirm your actions, or click Cancel to remove any actions and close the Add action modal.

Copy Action

Each matched action has the potential to display the Copy action, which optionally allows you to set up an action once and apply it to all or several triggers groups created.

This feature allows you to take the information filled in on the current action form and copy it to either all other action groups in the rule or just specific action groups.

To display the Copy action, a rule must have multiple triggers, and have Or selected on the Triggers page so that there are corresponding action groups.

  • None - no actions will be copied to other trigger groups.

  • All - the action you just created will be copied to all trigger groups.

  • Set group(s) - select the trigger groups where the action will be copied.

Note: If you attempt to copy an action to a trigger group that already has the same action, a warning displays, "Action already exists." Select either to Return to Form to modify the action, or, Replace action(s) and change the duplicate action in the target.

Adding a set of actions per Trigger group

For each trigger group, you can add actions and use the drop-down arrow to display a reminder of the criteria selected for that trigger group. It also displays where any if matched stop here options are selected on each trigger group.

  • Copying an action allows you to set up an action once and apply it to all or several triggers groups.

  • Trigger groups can be actioned independently should only a single trigger group match. Or, there could be numerous trigger groups matching and all associated actions are being performed. Therefore, you are required at minimum to add a queue action on each action group.

  1. Click the Add Action button to add actions to your Trigger groups.

  2. At least one action in each group must be a queue action.

Matched Actions Action Card

When an action is added to a Matched action, it displays as an Action card.

  • Use the drag and drop button in the action card to re-arrange the order in which the actions are executed.

  • Conversely, you can also use the Up and Down arrows to move the action up or down in the action priority list. The actions take place in the order listed in the action panel.

  • Hover over the icon to view the details of the action. E.g., queue number for queue action, Printer and MIR address for ticketing.

  • Click the 3 vertical dots icon to edit or delete the action.

 

Click Next to display the Unmatched Actions screen.