6.4.4 Linking Blocks to Summary Records

All Blocks contain Records that report Usages, Revenues or Sales.^[1] It is essential for a Message Recipient to be able determine to which Summary Record such Usage/Revenue/Sales Records contribute. To allow this, all Summary Records contain a SummaryRecordId Cell that Usage/Revenue/Sales Records can point to. Figure 4 shows an excerpt from a Sales Report Message in which two different types of exploitation (see Clause 6.5 for details) are being reported with respect to two different Releases (reported in Records of Type RE01).

Figure 4 – Linking Blocks to Summary Records (Example)

[1] In some profiles it may be valid to send Blocks without any such Records.