Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Features and Fixes

This update was mostly dedicated to under the hood improvements designed to facilitate the upcoming digital ad portal enhancements. There were a few random improvements of note.

Feature: Publishers can remove relationships with their customers.This can now be done in the customers management area.
There is a new button that says remove relationship with customer.

Feature: New delivery location feature supports sending files directly to a delivery destination upon file upload.
In the delivery destinations setup there is a new drop down entry which allows uploaded files to be directly forwarded to an offsite location. Upon selection of this option a new filter drown appears which asks which type of files you wish to send.

Since this is designed as a backup or forwarding method there are 2 items it does not support.
1. Issues: in this case we do not support multiple delivery of files by issue since there can be more than one issue and we dont want to needlessly deliver the file more than once upon upload.
2. Specification filters: Since this item is filtered already by file type it negates the specification filter option.

Feature: Issue Run Date and Materials Due Date can be managed down to the second.
There is also a new item which informs the user if the issue will run in less than 24 hours.

Large Change: Web Containers (Websites) management has now been moved under the company profile and renamed to "Web Media Profiles".
This was done because most customers will only need one web media profile and the left menu item was overkill.

Feature: New translation manager in place which can allow publishers add possible translatable phrases.

Feature: PDFx1a Compression added. This is an option that must be confirmed through support.
This option maintains 100% quality of the printable PDF while reducing its size using compression. This helps download and delivery speed tremendously.

Feature: Folio Number added to the main ad list view.
This new column is only reflecting the folio data which can be found in the job ticket portion of each ad.