The Mapping Manager
The Mapping Manager is a tool used to create associations between unrecognized values contained in your sales data and the values you have already established in Curve. The Mapping Manager has different pages for Setup information, Sales and Transaction Dates, Distribution Channels, Configurations, Territories, Exchange Rates, Tracks and Releases. Using the Mapping Manager, you can quickly and effectively ensure that any unrecognized data in your sales files is being associated with the correct values in Curve and that you have zero invalid lines in your sales files. You can access the Mapping Manager by clicking on any New sales file or a sales file with invalid lines that have values to be mapped.
The Setup page of the Mapping Manager allows you to edit the sales file's name, target period, invoice number, source and the template used to ingest the sales file. On the Dates tab, you can set the Sale Date and Transaction Date for every line in the file if they were not included in the data itself. On the Exchange Rates tab, you can specify exchange rates for sales files that are accounted in one of more currencies that are not established as your home currency. For every other tab, Curve will prompt you the match the unrecognized value on the right with the values already established in Curve via the drop-down menus on the left. For tracks and releases, you can type the name of the already-existing release in the text box on the left; Curve will narrow down your available options as you enter more characters. If the tracks and releases you are mapping do not already exist in Curve, you can create them on the spot using the Create button on the right. Once you have worked through the values in each tab, hit the Revalidate button on the final tab. When revalidating a file, Curve will remap all the lines that were previously invalid.
If the Mapping Manager flags with you a Track or Release that does not yet exist in your catalogue, you may opt to create this Track or Release within the Mapping Manager. You can use the Create button to load a preview, which you can further adjust or assign Contracts to ahead of saving. The "Bulk Create" button allows you to instantly create new Tracks or Releases for all new ISRCs or Cat Nos that were found in the sales file.
If you are asked to map Tracks or Releases but it is not displaying artist or title information, this is because your template is not picking up the Track Title, Release Title, Track Artist or Release Artist. Make sure these four fields are always populated to assist you in mapping sales lines to the correct Track or Release in your catalogue.
Links made here are remembered by Curve so when you upload data containing the same values in the future, they will automatically map it to the correct value in Curve. Once all the unknown values are mapped the Mapping Manager will no longer appear when view the sales file. Any mappings you create here can be seen and edited on the Mappings tab of your Template, or the Alias tab of your Tracks and Releases.
You can close the Mapping Manager at any time by clicking Cancel, though if you do so any lines containing unknown values you have not mapped will remain invalid and not be included in any royalty runs you include the file in.