Sunday, April 30, 2017

April 30th 2017 Release Notes

Virtual Publisher & SendMyAd

  • Company Profile moved from the left menu to top right menu profile menu. Please look for this in the top right of your screen.
  • Ad Details View: Users can now see ad status and filename on spread ads which have been split. More details have been added to the small thumbnail at the bottom of the spread split view.
  • Added publisher setting to skip spread split re-approval of split children if parent spread is approved before split.
  • Print Ads and Ad Reservations position tags area has been moved from an accordion style form item to a drop-down + tag type form item. This form item was different on the the ad reservation form than the print ad details, now they are both the same interface.
  • Issue Reports can now be downloaded as excel spread sheets and keep the report's styling.

Virtual Publisher

  • Regions: Regions for each item can now be managed from a single checklist style editor. This option is better for customers with large region lists and demographics. You can turn this interface on in your company profile -> Virtual Publisher Settings.
  • Markets: (Beta) New Demographics option has been added to the left menu
  • Signatures: Cover signatures larger than 4 pages now have the option to set the front side page count. Previously we only supported stacking all but 2 pages on the front side of the cover.
  • Signatures: Can now see supplied items in the signature manager list view. This helps users know where their insert falls in the signature.
  • Signatures: Can now create snapshots of selected signatures list.
  • Signatures: Special signatures can now be run as book covers, in order, or saddle style.
  • Signatures: Special signatures can now have custom trim sizes. This allows the user to run a section of the book as a different size than the rest of the book plan.
  • Signatures: New option to change more than one signature's data at a time. Using the bulk set option in the actions menu allows the user to set multiple values at a time on signatures. (More of these will be coming to vp)
  • Reports: New page content list report in VP reports view shows a list of all of the contents for each book plan.
  • Reports: New manufacturing report in book reports
  • Reports: New report configuration editor for book reports. Users can now change the reports to download as filename and have custom column order and displays.
  • Rights: New VP right added to allow control over who can delivery pages out of VP
  • Book Plan: New option to run a portion of the book as flipped over and backward reading.
  • Book Plan: Clipboard tab selection, scroll position and sorting are now remembered. This makes the user experience smoother.
  • Book Plan: Faster more precise drag and drop system. The new drag and drop planning system should visibly speed VP planning up. 
  • VP Book Plan: Less obnoxious plan warnings. New plan warning system shows a warning icon in the toolbar. Before it would show a popup constantly until the problem was dealt with.
  • Warnings include: Signature overlap and underlap, Positional coverage problems, inserts not at signature split.
  • VP Book Plan: New warnings for files found in the plan with coverage issues.
  • Magazine Viewer: Magazine viewer invitation system now supports multiple emails per invitation.

SendMyAd


  • Print Ad List View: New option to bulk deliver completed SMA ads from the ad list view for publishers only.
  • Print Ad List View: New filter option to show only ads that have no reservations "Materials Only". This is useful for figuring out which ads do not have merged ad reservations.
  • Print Ad List View: Increase ads per page count to 200.
  • Pickups: New option to keep pickup status the same as the source when picking up. This option allows publishers to bypass re-approval of pickups. Notice: This option is only available if the pickup is not reprocessed in any way.
  • New option to change the date which the ad uses to calculate due date. This new option can be found in the publication details and allows publishers to change the base date that the ad due date is calculated from.

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