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Developing validation plug-ins for Campaign
A plug-in is a Java™ class that is loaded at startup time and called whenever a campaign or offer is validated.

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- Validation PDK Guide
  - Unica Validation Plug-in Developer's Kit (PDK) overview
    Use the Validation Plug-in Developer's Kit (PDK) to develop custom validation logic for use in Unica Campaign.
  - Developing validation plug-ins for Campaign
    A plug-in is a Java™ class that is loaded at startup time and called whenever a campaign or offer is validated.
    - Setting up your environment to use the Validation PDK
      To use the Validation PDK with Unica Campaign, you must modify your path and set the JAVA_HOME environment variable.
    - Building the validator
      The Unica Campaign Validation PDK supplies an Ant script that can build all of the code in the sample files.
    - Configuring Unica Campaign to use a validation plug-in
      To configure Unica Campaign to use a validation plug-in, use the configuration settings at Unica Campaign > partitions > partition[n] > validation.
    - Testing the validator configuration
      After building the validator.jar file that contains the SimpleCampaignValidator class and making the necessary configuration changes, you can test and use the plug-in.
    - Creating a validator
      Follow these instructions to create a validation plug-in that is much like the SimpleCampaignValidator, but prevents the creation of campaigns that are called "badCampaign2."
    - Example validation scenario: prevent campaign edits
      This example explains how to use validation to prevent specific edits to a campaign.
  - Calling an application to handle validation
    The Validation PDK includes a sample validator, ExecutableCampaignValidator, which runs an executable, validate.sh, from the command line, to perform validation.
- Macros for HCL Unica
  Macros can be used in Unica Campaign and Unica Interact to enhance your flowcharts.

Developing validation plug-ins for Unica Campaign

A plug-in is a Java™ class that is loaded at startup time and called whenever a campaign or offer is validated.

The validation occurs whenever a user saves a campaign. You can create your own Java™ plug-ins with the tools that are provided in the Validation PDK. The PDK contains source code for sample plug-ins and an Ant file (Apache Ant is a Java™ based build tool) that you use to compile plug-ins.

The following steps explain how to set up your environment to develop a plug-in and then walk you through the creation of your own plug-in.

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