Sunday, July 30, 2017

July 30 Release Notes

Virtual Publisher Enhancements & Bug Fixes

  • Demographic support
    • Demographic support for inserts, onserts, special sigs, ads and edit. (Ads and Edit will need your review, im sure it is not perfect yet)
    • Demographic rules system added for exclusive, not exclusive etc
    • Demographic combination rules support for running with or without specific demo.
    • Bulk set data option available for demographics list.
  • Enhanced Regions support
    • Distribution Regions: This is a new type of region that dictates how zip codes are handled in the given region zone. This is the new top level region required to support multi-level regionalization.
    • Distribution categories added for (us subs, can subs, etc). The distribution category also further defines which postal code set to use. 
    • Postal code management for Canada and US
      • Support for 3 digit and 5 digit codes
      • Can add and remove by whole state
  • Editions and Regions:
    • New Editions list: We moved the editions tab from the book plan details to the left menu. This makes it more possible to see final data and reports related to editions.
    • Regions for the issue are now managed in the "Regional Books" tab. It is assumed that all regions running will be used that are selected from the master region profile list. This list is also manageable per issue as before it was not.
    • Better display of missing regions on page details views
    • New notice on page details if parent page is found to be in a special signature or insert that is already regionalized. This helps the user not have to add more regions when the parent signature is already regional.
    • Regional globe icon now shows up on regionalized signatures at the top of the page near the name of the signature. This helps the user know that the signature is regionalized. 
  • Mail enhancements 
    • Mail classes can be setup on inserts and onserts
    • Mail weights are now counted by class and shown on the editions list view.
  • Press Manager Area:
    • Can now create and manage presses
  • Press Forms Area:
    • Can create and manage press forms
  • Reports
    • Changes to Book Reports -> Manufacturing Report, to support new press forms as the field name field.
    • New book reports custom report creation tool. This is a beta release but you can now create your own custom reports out of book plan data. More enhancements will come to this later.
    • Rights can be assigned to view each available book report in VP.
    • New press forms area added to the bottom of the "Manufacturing Report".
    • New configuration option in book reports to hide the top "Information" area of the report.
    • New editorial placements report available in Left menu -> "Reports" list view.
    • New Editions -> CDS Summary Report
    • New Editions -> CDS Weights Report
    • Coming Soon -> CDS Regions & Demographics Report 
  • Paper Splits Area 
    • In the signature details users can now add paper splits to a signature. 
    • Paper split information is displayed in some reports.
    • Warning displays now when paper split is not covering all available regions
  • Flipped positions in book support:
    • Magazine viewer now supports flipped pages
    • Several display bugs were fixed.
  • Special Inserts
    • This is a new area in which you can add inserts from the signature list view. Special inserts always show in the main book plan, unlike the old style inserts. 
    • Special inserts always show up in the full run of the book. You do not have to open an extra plan to see the insert details anymore when using this feature.
  • Signatures
    • Signatures now have a standard default color applied for easier identification of the signature's architecture. 
      • Dark blue = cover
      • Light blue = body
      • Floating Square = insert
      • Floating Rounded Square = special signature
    •  Signature preview bar now shows inserts and special signatures as floating above the run of the book unless the pages are set to run in the normal flow.
  • Inserts
    • Inserts and Insert Templates can now have customized colors for better identification.
  • File Delivery
    • There are 2 new file delivery tags. 
      • ZIndex - This option allows the delivered file name to have a numeric indication of placement in a vertical stack of files found on a single page. This can be useful when one or more items are stacked on top of each other on a single page.
      • ZindexAlpha - this option allows the delivered file name to have an alpha indication (like A,B,C) in a vertical stack of files found on a single page. 
  • Custom Page Sizes
    • When setting a custom page size from the actions menu in VP, the opposing side of the page will now be automatically set to the same size. 
  • Ad Reservations
    • New option to create custom ad sizes is available. These custom ad sizes can be created at the time of creation of the ad reservation in VP. This allows the user to not have to choose an ad specification.
    • New option to drag jpg previews directly on to ad reservations in the ad reservation details view. This allows users to show an ad preview for ads that do not or will not have a corresponding pdf uploaded later. 
    • New option in the actions menu of ad reservations to duplicate the ad reservation.

SendMyAd Enhancements & Bug Fixes

  • Ad list view support for seeing custom meta data. If you have custom metadata fields added, you can now see this info in the ad list view
  • Created new checkbox on the ad size details to allow a publisher to make it available for publishers only. This is good for in house ad specs that are not to be visible to advertisers.

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