Monday, August 29, 2016

August 28th Release notes

VIRTUAL PUBLISHER

 General

  • New reports list view makes finding and viewing reports easier.

Book Planning

  • New ability to set a single page size in a plan to a custom size. This can be found in the page details action menu and can be used to produce single custom page sizes.
  • New type of percentages data can now be viewed on the vp book plan footer. This can be setup from the plan display details in the top right corner.
  • Magazine viewer now shows section labels on the page display.
  • Magazine viewer now shows special signatures.
  • Special signatures now support front and back side feature for saddle stitched book plans.
  • New user right added to allow or disallow users from creating plan versions.
  • Special signature support added to VP book plan ladder view.
  • Users can create multiple editorials on a book plan at a time.
  • Users can now create multiple ad reservations on a book plan at a time.
  • VP Runlist view has been converted to a fixed header table and the totals and header fields can now always be seen when scrolling.

Book Production 

  • Selected Edition can now be used in the file delivery path when delivering VP plan pages.

Editorial Management

  • Editorial details view now has a new view menu at the bottom right. This new menu allows users to see 3 new options when viewing editorials. Shape, Shape and preview and Preview only. This is handy for seeing story shapes once the actual preview has come into partial page stories.
  • Editorial list view can now be edited in bulk. This will save editors a lot of time. 
  • Editorial Assignment users in the editorial details view can now be searched for in the drop down details.

Editorial Planning

  • Users can now add custom fields to the editorial planning view. 
  • Row heights can be set on the editorial planning view.

SENDMYAD

  • Issue reports enhancements including live filtering by time and deadline types.
  • Send ad view now has search inside of publication drop down. We have done away with the old search input field and combined it into the publication drop down.
  • All select drop downs in the site have been re-skinned using a better technology.
  • New company level setting added allowing publishers to hide old issues from all views x number of days after the issue's run date.
  • Added a new notification email that can be sent when the advertiser changes the issue on any ad.
  • Publisher dashboard now moved to statistics view in left menu.
  • Publisher dashboard Tabs now moved to left menu items for easier access.

Ad Creator 

  • Ad creator ads now have XMP job ticket when they are delivered or downloaded.

Monday, May 16, 2016

June 2016 Release Notes:

As many of you may have noticed, this release cycle was a little longer than normal. That is because instead of doing our usual release phase we moved all our services into a more stable cloud based environment. This was a huge move for us under the hood and the plan could not accommodate both a software release and a systems migration. Most users should be experiencing much faster performance from both SMA and VP as a result.


What's new?

Virtual Publisher:

  • New planning reports functionality gives publishers access to highly configurable issue based reporting. For more information please contact a sales representative.
  • Large enhancement to auto issue creation system, allows for issues to be created automatically with many new date offset and incremental options.
  • Newly redesigned login screen.
  • Many list views converted to new fixed header style tables, making it easier to sort and see table headers.
  • Added support for dropping 3 or more page spread on to right side plan positions
  • Added support for delivering saved plan versions to delivery locations.
  • Special signatures can now be counted as regular pages in the book plan. See the new check box "Include in page count" in the signature details view.
  • All table rows in the main list view are now easier to see when checked off.
  • All table rows in the main list view now show the last selected row.
  • Dashboard in VP have been removed. The dashboard will now be called statistics and can now be found under "Information" in the last side main menu.
  • Better support for A/B splits on ads and editorials.
  • Better visibility of inserts when multiple inserts are dropped on top of the same position. 
  • Minor UI updates to the  page, ad and editorial details (lightbox) view. 
  • Redesigned draggable rows UI in all of site. Easier to user and matches normal standards.
  • Several new fields now visible in the issues list view.
  • New advanced non-latin character support. Before now many aspects of the product did not support entry of special characters found in the non-english language. This should now be corrected site wide.
  • Users can now save plans as versions and also deliver the saved versions of plans to different locations. 
  • File deliveries view now contains data filtering options.

SendMyAd:

  • New planning reports functionality gives publishers access to highly configurable issue based reporting. For more information please contact a sales representative.
  • Large enhancement to auto issue creation system, allows for issues to be created automatically with many new date offset and incremental options.
  • New preflight feature allows warning or reject if a font with a specific name is found in the file. This can be seen in the preflight profile configuration screen.
  • Newly redesigned login screen.
  • New planning reports system includes filters for multiple publications and filtering by date ranges.
  • All table rows in the main list view are now easier to see when checked off.
  • All table rows in the main list view now show the last selected row.
  • Newly redesigned contact selector on ad upload form. New form allows for greater flexibility of finding ad contacts.
  • 3rd party approval ads no longer allow revisions when the advertiser re-uploads.
  • New deliveries menu allows publishers to see all of their file deliveries in one view.
  • New option to warn or reject if specific list of font names are found in the uploaded ad.
  • New option to limit ad sizes by issue. This new option allows publishers to create an ad size which will only be available for specific series of issues. This can be managed on the ad specification details form.
  • Minor UI updates to the ad details (lightbox) view. 
  • Redesigned draggable rows UI in all of site. Easier to user and matches normal standards.
  • Several new fields now visible in the issues list view.  
  • 3rd Party ad approvals no longer allow multiple revisions. Users can only revise one time per approval.
  • New left menu "Deliveries" view available for publishers. View shows all outgoing deliveries from SendMyAd.

Monday, February 1, 2016

January 31 Release

January 31 Release Notes

SendMyAd

  • New easier to user lists for group details and approvals details views.
  • New Blanchard Systems branding applied system level outgoing emails.
  • Fixed bug that was causing some kindle fire tablet previews to look blurry.
  • Can now warn in ad creator ads for dpi or color space.

Virtual Publisher

  • Editorial list view now has assigned filter.
  • New VP Dashboard information
    •  You can now see publication level numbers by selecting a publication and no issue in the dashboard.
    • You can now see company level numbers by selecting no publication and no issue in the dashboard.
  • Net Cost and Rate field added to Run list view.
  • Option to reject and comment on added editorial tasks.
  • New company preference to not fill merged ads with white background. See "Auto fill ads with white background when merging." in your company profile. This option will allow you to place transparent ads directly on to editorial pages and if the ad has a transparent background, it will keep it.
  • New user preference to show weights in grams instead of pounds.
  • New recalculate editions buttons shows up when publication has editions.
  • Draggable guides now available in the merge tool.