Monday, February 28, 2011

Features and Fixes March 2011

New features included in our March upgrade:

 Enhancements


Better Bleed Detection
  • There is now a bleed preflight check which has a tolerance value just like trim. This allows publishers to flag bleed sizes that are too large and to accept bleed sizes that are slightly under your specifications. 
Cross Site Pickups For Publishers Who Are Partners
  • If your portal is has partnerships with other SendMyAd publisher sites, advertisers will now be able to pick up and copy ads between all titles regardless of publisher.
Batch pickups
  • There is now a way to simply copy multiple ads in a single publication to a new issue.
New Ad Notes System
  • A new coordinate based ad notes system has been added. Publishers and advertisers can now draw note boxes on individual ads for tracking specific problematic areas.  
New Reminder Screen For Advertisers
  • We have added new reminder screen for advertisers. This screen appears when an advertiser uploads an ad an then closes the details view before it is approved or rejected.
Invitation System Enhancements
  •   Existing users will not get emails if re-invited by another user.
  •  New report shown immediately after attempting to invite customers listing number of successes, failures, and skipped invitations to existing users. Poorly formed email addresses are shown so they can be corrected.
  • Publishers may remove an invitee from their list to prevent duplicate re-invitations from being sent to a customer.

Other Minor Enhancements 
  • Publishers may choose to hide pickup details from ad history, XMP metadata and receipts. This is intended primarily for multi-publisher sites and the new universal pickup featured noted above.
  • Translation edits no longer require a user to clear their browser cache.
  • Usability improvements for users resetting their password.
  • Improvements to materials requests when users are assigned late in the process.
  • Adds an option to "Ads per issue (by issue)" report to omit hidden and archived ads.
  • Help button available when uploading ads. It contains common solutions for users having problems using the uploader.
  • More informative display of video tutorial links includes the duration of each video and a description.
  • Ad sizes can now all be copied from one publication into another one.
  • XMP metadata and digital receipt will show information about the source for copied ads. (Ads that were "sent to other pubs."). 

    Bug Fixes
    • Resolves issue with ads being offset improperly after trimming (found only in rare cases after the ad was reprocessed).
    • Archived ads have only appropriate action options available to them.
    • Improved behavior of Manage Ads at lowest supported screen resolution, 1024 x 768.
    • Downloading large original files (under "Assets" in the ad details view) will be much more reliable.
    • Resolves issue with ad sizes losing their connection to delivery locations.
    • Better bleed size preflighting for rotated files.
    • Allow users to access repositioning tool to fix over sized bleeds if there are no other errors.