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.