Monday, January 16, 2017

January 15th Release Notes

Virtual Publisher

  • Regions are now managed via profiles instead of per issue. VP users will now see a new option to select a region profile set for their current plan. This new option will allow publishers greater flexibility when reusing sets of regions from issue to issue. If your plan does not use regions, this will not effect you. If you do use regions, users should go to plan details and select a region profile.
  • Regions lists are now importable and exportable to CSV format.
  • The "Inserts" tab in plan details has been changed to "Supplied Items". We felt like the word inserts was to inclusive of items found in the book when in fact the list has always contained both inserts and onserts.
  • New demographics and attached mail system, allows publishers to manage demographics and attached mail on VP book plans. This new system comes complete with weight and thickness calculations for onsert items and poly bagging.
  • Much better supplied item templates system. The supplied item templates now support much more enhanced features for managing supplied items such as inserts, onserts, polybags, and other attached mail types.
  • New regional book list tab in the VP plan details. This new tab shows a complete list of regionalized plans with circulation counts, thicknesses and weights.
  • New final editions tab. This new tab adds functionality to combine both the regionalized book plans with the demographic items and poly bags of the book to create and maintain a final list of magazine editions.
  • Change to the regionalization calculation. There has been a big change under the hood of VP and how we handle regionalized books. In previous versions of VP, we only generated regional versions of the book plan once an item with a region was placed on the plan. The new version of the software will now auto generate regional editions of the books based on the full list of regions selected in the region profile option in the plan details form.
  • Special signatures now supports perfect and saddle style specification independent of the parent book plan.
  • Special signatures now supports input for front page count and back pages count for saddle style signatures.
  • Special signatures now support more custom label styles like "Alpha","Numeric" and "Roman Numeral"
  • Special signature markers can now be seen on the book plan view. Previously no signature separation markers could be seen.
  • Execution Type field added to Supplied items, Signatures and Special Signatures. This new option will allow users to define how items are tipped into the book at their position.
  • New user avatar system allows users to upload photos of themselves or avatars to make the application more user friendly.
  • VP Plan display settings moved from top right menu to the plan actions menu.
  • New left menu for VP Reports. We have been getting a lot of requests for VP specific reports and more visual reports, so we've added a new book reports view that shows downloadable reports in a list view.
  • Tasks can be shown or hidden when viewing the book plan magazine viewer.
  • Supplied items on the book plan now show a nice tool tip with details.
  • Issues can now have custom metadata added to them. We've received several requests to allow custom metadate to be printed on the issue details form, VP and SMA now support this feature in the publication details setup form.
  • Several new metadata tracking fields have been added to the book plan details
    • LAP
    • Grind Off: Area that is ground off the spine of a pre-bound piece.
    • Head Trim: Area that is trimmed off at the top of a piece during the binding process.
    • Job Number:A custom job number that can be included for printing purposes.
    • Total Circulation: The total run of book circulation.

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  • New avatar system allows users to upload photos of themselves or avatars to make the application more user friendly.
  • Issues can now have custom metadata added to them. We've received several requests to allow custom metadate to be printed on the issue details form, VP and SMA now support this feature in the publication details setup form.