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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.
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.

Developer Guides
- 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.

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.

The Validation PDK can be installed on any machine, but the plug-ins that you create with it must be on the machine where Unica Campaign is running. We recommend that you install the PDK on the machine where you are testing your plug-ins.

The PDK requires you to have Apache Ant and a Sun Java™ developer kit on your machine to create Java™ plug-ins. To ensure compatibility, use the Ant and JDK packages that come with your application server.

To set up your environment to use the Validation PDK:

Add the folder containing the Ant executable to your path. Two examples are provided.
- For WebLogic 11gR1 installed in the default directory on Windows™, add the following to your path: C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\common\bin
- For WebSphere® 7.0 installed in the default directory on Windows™, add the following to your path: C:\HCL\WebSphere\AppServer1\bin
Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the directory containing the bin and lib directories of the JDK. Two examples are provided.
- For WebLogic 11gR1 on Windows™, set JAVA_HOME to C:\Oracle\Middleware\jdk160_18
- For WebSphere® 7.0 on Windows™, set JAVA_HOME to C:\HCL\WebSphere\AppServer1\java\jre

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