Thursday, September 4, 2014

September 2nd Upgrade

SendMyAd

  • New ability to control gutter safety values on spread ad specifications.
  • New ability to create and manage digital ad reservations. Just like print ads, digital ads can now be reserved through the "Reserve an Insertion" menu option.
  • New SMA Billing dashboard for publishers. New view shows publisher present ad past bill details. Proper rights are required to view this.
  • New Master approval option allows some approvals to override all others. This can be seen as a new checkbox in the approval forms.


Virtual Publisher

  • New option to allow only one user to edit plans at a time. This new option can be turned on in the company profile and allows only one user to edit a plan at a time.
  • New advanced vp page view allows for better revision comparison and more content accurate zooming.
  • New option to add 2 or more empty pages to any portion of a virtual publisher plan. 
  • Status view option added to magazine browser based viewer.
  • Added new folio label type which can auto fill all empty labels.
  • Added ability to drag files from desktop directly to VP editorial pages while in editorial details view.
  • Added more help descriptions to ad import form including display of how field selectors work.
  • Editorial history details are now more accurate and show more information.
  • New VP production report shows production related plan data.
  • New options added to inserts to count them as editorial or ad. These numbers are now reflected as true coverage counts in the plan.
  • Paging buttons added to the following list views: Tablet Ads, Digital ad campaigns, VP Images, Users list
  • Added new editorial shapes to match all available ad spec shapes.
  • Added new option to ad pickup import problem screen to convert the current ad to a new ad. This will allow ads which have multiple pickup options to be converted to a new ad as needed.
  • Read only VP plans now allow read only viewing of page details.
  • New editorial thumbs list view makes it easier to see editorial pages. 
  • New option to manually adjust ad and edit percentage coverages. This allows publisher to alter the reported ad and editorial numbers, so they can be printed in the reports.
  • Inserts can now be included in the ad percentage or the editorial percentage on the edit insert form. 
  • Editorial assignment system now accepts a single user or group. Includes new configurable email template.
  • Note borders can now be colored.
  • Publications now support a margin field value. This will apply the supplied margin to all merged pages.
  • Added ability to see VP plan snippet details and rename them.
  • Magazine viewer now supports zooming on pages by double clicking them.
  • New check added in VP book plan to ensure inserts are always at signature breaks. This prevents inserts from accidentally being placed in the wrong position after re-signaturing is done.


General Features

  • Change to notification system interface. All user's notification details can now be seen under the user details view. This now makes it easy to control and see exactly what notifications a user will get.



Fixes

  • Story reflow fixes. Story flow now supports extremely complex flows.
  • Fixed bug in indesign template ad spec creation, when name had quotes in it.
  • Many fixes in regionalization refreshing
  • Several small fixes to the performance of dropped single and split spreads in VP
  • Fixed bug with run list and plan view not showing inserts positioned on front and back side of book
  • Publisher approvals no longer alert approver for confirmation on screen.
  • When new plans are created in VP, all physical editorial files are no longer copied to the new plan when the plan is a copy. 


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