Composition of a priority control configuration

A priority control configuration is made up of an ordered set of administrator defined rules or criteria. The Control Center provides pages to define and manage priority control configurations. A priority control configuration for Amount Keying must remain active when operators are using the amount keying page.

Each criterion in a priority control configuration selects, orders, and sends available transactions to the amount keying operators.

Filtering criterion phrases

An Amount Keying priority control configuration usually consists of one or more optional filtering criterion definitions and a default criterion that is defined as the last criterion. Filtering criterion allows selection criteria to be defined, while a default criterion has no selection criteria defined. When a request for amount keying transactions arrives from an operator, the criterion are executed in the order defined until there are enough transactions for the request or all of the filtering criteria have been executed.

The filtering criteria have the following optional phrases:
  • Selection phrase (first phrase): This phrase selects a set of transactions to key based on criteria such as amount, accumulator ID, user fields, or repaired status.
  • Ordering phrase (second phrase): This phrase establishes the order in which selected transactions are presented to users.
  • Authorization phrase (third phrase): This phrase specifies who can key the selected transactions. Authorization is performed by listing the user groups whose members are allowed to key the transactions selected by the selection phrase.
The attributes that are available for use in the priority control configuration (PCC) selection clause for Amount Keying include the following:
Amount
Numeric amount of the transaction.
Payment Type
The type of the transaction. Use C for credit and D for debit.
Process Control
The process control field for the transaction.
Account
The account field for the transaction.
Field 4
Optional field for the transaction.
Routing Number
The routing number field of the transaction.
EPC
The EPC field for the transaction.
Aux On Us
The auxiliary on-us field for the transaction.
Accumulator Id
The accumulator ID for the transaction.
User Field
The user defined field for the transaction.
Repaired by
To select transactions that have not been repaired, use the is empty operator for this attribute. To select transactions that have been previously repaired, use the is not empty operator or one of the other operators that require a value.
The attributes that are available for use in the priority control configuration (PCC) ordering clause for Amount Keying include the following:
Amount
The amount field for the transaction.
Receipt Time
The time that the transaction was received.

Filtering criterion auto complete

The priority control configuration auto complete option is supported by Amount Keying priority control configurations. When auto complete is enabled, transactions that meet the selection phrase of a filtering criterion are automatically completed and not sent to a keying operator. Use auto complete when defining a filtering criterion that selects transactions that do not require their amount to be keyed. Filtering criterion with auto complete enabled should always be defined at the top of the filtering criteria set.

Default configuration

A default priority control configuration for Amount Keying is provided as an example. The default configuration contains a single default filter criterion that sends any transaction to any member of the defined Amount Keying user groups. The default configuration ensures that there is a minimal configuration for sending transactions to the Amount Keying operators.