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Advanced system-generated unique promotion codes

Advanced system-generated unique promotion codes are created by specifying an advanced pattern of characters.

Using this method to create promotion codes is considered complex compared to using Simple system-generated unique promotion codes. Therefore, it is recommended that you only use this creation method when the specific business requirements cannot be fulfilled using simple system-generated unique promotion codes.

The following inputs are required to generate advanced system-generated unique promotion codes:

Pattern

An advanced pattern containing at least one set of generated characters, specified in brackets []. It can also contain fixed characters such as numeric, alphabetic, or alphanumeric characters.

Number of unique promotion codes to generate

The total number of generated promotion codes to create, based on the business needs.

The maximum number of possible unique promotion codes to generate is calculated and displayed for reference, based on the pattern input.

Pattern syntax

Advanced system-generated unique promotion codes specified in brackets [] can take on the following values:

Numeric characters

D represents numeric characters in the pattern.

Alphabetic characters

A represents uppercase alphabetic characters in the pattern.

a represents lowercase alphabetic characters in the pattern.

M represents mixed-case alphabetic characters in the pattern.

Alphanumeric characters

X represents uppercase alphanumeric characters in the pattern.

x represents lowercase alphanumeric characters in the pattern.

N represents mixed-case alphanumeric characters in the pattern.

Sequential characters

S represents a sequence of characters in the pattern with the following notation:

S+startingNumber/Increment.

Specify a starting number and increment value is optional, with the following behaviour:

• If both a starting number and increment are specified, the values are processed as a typical sequence.

  For example, [SSSS+100/20] represents a sequence starting at 0100 and incrementing by 20.

• If no starting number or increment is specified, a starting number of 0 and an increment value of 1 is automatically assigned.

  For example, [SSSS] represents a sequence starting at 0000 and incrementing by 1.

Sample output

Advanced system-generated unique promotion codes can contain any amount of fixed characters, generated characters, and sequences.

Where, for example, the unique promotion codes sample results are:

Sample advanced system-generated unique promotion codes

Code generation pattern	Sample unique promotion codes
IBM[XXX]EVENT	IBM65BEVENT IBMJK7EVENT IBMXWTEVENT
SUMMER-[DDDAA]-SPECIAL	SUMMER-123AB-SPECIAL SUMMER-551LM-SPECIAL SUMMER-319PG-SPECIAL
WINTER2010[XX]-SALE	WINTER201055-SALE WINTER2010H9-SALE WINTER2010MC-SALE
IBM[DXSS]	IBM5G00 IBM8P01 IBM2502
IBM[SSSS+100/20]	IBM0100 IBM0120 IBM0140

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