Tuesday, January 26, 2010

New notification type

We're adding a new notification email for when ads are revised. Previously you would get an email saying that new materials had been uploaded but there was no indication that it was a revision - it used the same email template as for new file uploads. Now you can control these separately. They of course have separate templates for your customizations. Simply enable this new notification under your publisher preferences.

One additional note - to make this transition easier, if you have "Notify us when ads are uploaded" enabled in your preferences, we've automatically enabled this new revision option. That way you'll continue to receive an email alert. You'll just need to customize the message with the new template if you wish.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Publication specific approvals

Approvals can now be set for individual publications.

Publication level notifications

Now you can control all email notifications at the publication level. You can set different groups or the default materials contact for any of the various email alerts. Previously you could only specify that a single group or the materials contact person would receive all types of notifications.

Watch our video for an explanation.


One thing to note - your existing settings will be migrated to the new system. You only need alter the configuration if you want to make use of the new feature.

Improved Advanced Search

Our January 2010 upgrade features an improved advanced search for ads, publications, issues, users and customers.

See the video for a walkthrough. We think you'll appreciate the new interface and the speedier results.

SendMyAd upgrade tonight

Tonight (7 pm Eastern) is upgrade time. Lots of new stuff coming, see post below for details and watch for videos here soon.

January 2010 Upgrade New Features

The January SendMyAd upgrade includes the following new features:

  1. Publication-specific publisher approvals.

  2. Individual notifications can now be managed at the publication level.

  3. Better digital ad management using website containers.

  4. Publisher customizable metadata.

  5. Add margin to document support.

  6. Advanced search has completely new interface - for ads, publications, users - and better performance.

  7. Multi-language support:


    • Publisher option to select languages approved for use with their portal.

    • Publisher interface to edit custom translation table.

    • User selection of preferred language - and is remembered even on login screen before authentication.

    • Email and site text templates are now customizable for all supported languages.


  8. Dashboard events system allows publisher and site to post important notices for users.

  9. Right created that allows publishers to alter ads after the ad is completed.

  10. Individual ad sizes can have custom closing dates using an offset from the publication run date.

  11. Ability to cancel queued deliveries.

  12. Current timestamp is now available as a variable when delivering files for the file or directory name.

  13. New footer on all outgoing emails. Copyright notice, link to privacy policy and email template code for troubleshooting included for now.
  14. Advertisers now can view the preflight report (under Actions menu) for an ad after it has been approved.

  15. Email variables concerning ads are expanded and standardized across all templates.

  16. Delivered count as optional table column for publishers only.

  17. Easy access column preferences and column reordering.

  18. Notes in ad view always show notes count.



As always, any bug fixes you might have been promised are included in this update.

Watch this blog for video tutorials for all the new features starting this evening through the next few days.