Once you created all your stories and applied a rules engine at the campaign level, you can preview how the stories flow.
1) Under your campaign go onto C-S Simulator is the tool that allows you to test dynamic creatives and the paths created with the Journey Designer and the Storyboard in a simple and effective way without the need of recreating each time the consumer's path.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND THE SIMULATOR?
It's easy to access to our simulator:
- Enter the campaign you're working on;
- Choose the format you want to preview
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- Click on the
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- three dots on the right
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- to open a drop down list:
- Select "Start Stories"
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3) Now a new tab will open starting from the initial story of your campaign.
There are 2 things you want to make sure:
1) No cookies have to be stored on your browser. Therefore, we suggest copying and pasting that url in a private window in Safari.
2) All stories need to be published. For each story click on edit and under "Workflow" select "Published" instead of "Draft"
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HOW TO SET UP THE SIMULATOR?
To set up the simulator you just need to create as many contexts as the stories you've included in your sequence.
Below we explain in few steps how to insert a new context on the simulator:
- Enter in your format preview. If you don't know how to do it, read the text above;
- Click on the symbol
at the right corner on the top of your page; - Select the "plus" icon to add a new context and give it a name. We suggest naming each context with the same nave you gave to the stages in your sequence;
- Click on the green "plus" to add a condition: at this step you need to replicate the same path you created in your journey designer or storyboard to arrive to that specific stage;
- Once you've added all the conditions for your context, click on "Apply" button and, if you've set all right, you will see the corresponding story;
- Repeat point 4 and 5 for all your sequence's stages;
- When finished, you can share your preview link with anyone and all your contexts with their conditions won't be deleted.
SEE THE PREVIEW OF EACH CONTEXT
Once you've opened the preview, click on the symbol at the right top to open the dialog window and select the context you want to preview from the drop down list.
Press 
to confirm the change of context and do the same with all the other contexts you have to preview.
