February 4th 2018 Release Notes

Virtual Publisher Enhancements

• Plan display settings moved to new icon in the toolbar for easy real time plan display settings changes.
• Large update to plan item calculations. Previously item calculations were not truly done by square inch calculation for each page, now they are. This results in highly accurate page coverage calculation per edition of the book.
• Removed left menu option "VP Stats" after a review found that this view was not only slowing down the system but also collecting a large amount of info that was not in use by any publisher. The reports system has access to all of the same data in a better format, so we removed this piece of the UI.
• New ability to download book as single pages in one pdf.
• Right click menus available on vp book plan.
• Spread details view enhanced to support more complex books
• Weights and measurements enhancements now support editioned books.
• We've added the option to deliver to dropbox locations.
• New slack integrations for group channel notifications.
• This includes a new option to send a pdf or jpg preview to a slack channel or person.  Users can now go to slot details view in VP -> Actions -> Send to Slack -> You can send a single file to multiple channels you have defined in the slack setup portion of the portal.
• New option to add and remove users to a publication's access directly from the publication details view. The option to do this from the group details still exists but it is not possible to manage access both ways.
• When adding a publication, users can now select more than one rights group to associate the publication with more than one group.
• Edition naming conventions can now be customized to match what each publisher prefers when producing editions.
• New option added to control which plan warnings show in the plan warning system. 
• New plan warning added for book plans with polybags and belly bands to ensure the proper mail class is selected for the belly band.
• New feature to allow approval of each page while in the spread details mode of VP.
• New option to add a 14 page signature added.
• Support for CDS subscription circulation file export and import to update the circulation information by zipcode and edition for VP book plans.
• Desktop drag and drop now allowed on all uploaders in the site.
• New vertical bindery report available in the VP reports area.
• New pressform option to add single pages to a pressform instead of whole signatures.
• Group details view now has tabbed view for publishers with VP licensing system. This makes it easier to see license groups vs the main groups list.
• Support for viewing special signatures in VP spread mode added. Clicking through spreads in vp should now perform better.
• The publication details view -> action menu was changed. All non actions were moved to our more standardized "More" tab at the top. We know this may appear strange at first but it is a more appropriate location.
• Plan sections can now be downloaded as a CSV file.
• Issue reports can now be nested into sub groups for easier compartmentalization of reports.

SendMyAd Enhancements

• When doing spread ad pickups, users are now given the option to also pickup the split children ads as well or only the unsplit parent ad.
• We've added the option to deliver to dropbox locations.
• This includes a new option to send a pdf or jpg preview to a slack channel or person.  Users can now go to slot details view in VP -> Actions -> Send to Slack -> You can send a single file to multiple channels you have defined in the slack setup portion of the portal.
• New option to add and remove users to a publication's access directly from the publication details view. The option to do this from the group details still exists but it is not possible to manage access both ways.
• When adding a publication, users can now select more than one rights group to associate the publication with more than one group.
• Desktop drag and drop now allowed on all uploaders in the site.
• Group details view now has tabbed view for publishers with VP licensing system. This makes it easier to see license groups vs the main groups list.
• Custom metadata can now be added to digital ad tracking.
• The publication details view -> action menu was changed. All non actions were moved to our more standardized "More" tab at the top. We know this may appear strange at first but it is a more appropriate location.
• New Dynamic Digital Ad type created to support more flexible digital ad uploading.
• Issue reports can now be nested into sub groups for easier compartmentalization of reports.

Photo Portal Enhancements

• A list of users who are in the photo task group can now be seen on each photo.