Features December 2018

This release was mostly designed to stabilize several bugs found in some of the newer features of the product, but there are a few interesting new features as well.

Virtual Publisher

General

• Redesigned merge tool and position tool interface. The newly redesigned merge tool interface moves the information to the top into a bar. This makes data visualize better than hunting for it on the right. 
• Addition of new quick actions in the merge and positioning tool. The new actions allow for one click adjustments to match ad bleed or trim and easily remove bleed sides. This reduces the need to key in the exact data to make ads place properly. 
• New print orders feature available for purchase. This new module allows publishers to track exactly where there print order will be distributed. It also comes with a highly style excel spreadsheet and report view as well. In Q1 this feature will include office copy address and quantities as well. This also includes new interfaces to manage distributions channels, distribution locations, and several new region form UI items. 
• New option in the Virtual Publisher company profile to control which phase of the workflow print ads show up in the clipboard. This new option allows ads to be shown only when they are finished if the publisher desires. 
• VP Merge tool now allows multiple versions of the same page to be merged at a time as opposed to before the page would lock users out while the file was processing. This speeds usage up in a multi region book. 
• New ad clipboard options added to select multiple items in the clipboard and apply, Hide, Unhide, Move To Position, and Move To Clipboard. A new filter has been added as well to show hidden ads. 
• New feature to limit delivery locations to a set of specific publications. This allows publishers to decide which delivery locations will be available in each publication. 
• Automatic issue creation now supports auto-incrementing the externalId field. 
• New buttons in region details view to move to the next or previous region. 

VP Photos

• Removed the need in the Editorial Manager plugin to download VP job options to support OPI photos system. 
• New “Download Fullsize” action available within photos list view, which will allow for bulk download of all selected photos’ latest revision. 
• New “Add Tasks” action available within photos list view, which will allow for bulk adding of a task to all selected photos. 
• New “Send for Corrections” action available within photos list view, which will allow for bulk sending of photos for corrections (max 10 at at time). 
• New “Mark Tasks Complete” action available within photos list view, which will allow for approval of all tasks for all selected photos. (Note: This will not mark the master approval of “All Corrections Complete” as done). 
• Added ability to upload to an Issue without specifying an editorial via the “Awaiting Editorial” option within the editorial selector. 
• New “Change Associated Editorial” action available within the photos list view, which will allow for bulk change of all selected photos' associated editorial. This action is also available within the photo details view as a pencil icon next to the editorial name in the left panel. (Useful when moving photos from “Awaiting Editorial” to their intended Editorial. 
• Added a photo status filter within the photos list view. 
• Added ability to view tasks associated with a photo from the photos list view. 
• Sending photos off for corrections now locks the ability to add, edit or remove tasks.

October 2nd Release notes

VP

• New option to force an ad's placement into a position on the book plan.
• New option to deliver a compiled digital book for use in Zinio or other digital outlets to any VP delivery destination.
• New option to deliver single pages of a digital book to any VP delivery destination. 
• New "Markets manager" allows users to quickly manage all the markets on all content on a specific page. Found in each page menu.
• New "Position Tool" allows for fine positioning of content before pages are merged. 
• New "Position Templates" allows users to save ad positions on pages for use in other issues.
• New option to duplicate newly created stories
• New option to auto add and remove all region children
• New option to set order sub region lists.
• New option to duplicate inserts and onserts a number of times on the add form and duplication form. 
• New system that auto centers ads when dropped from clipboard to book plan.
• New position profiles, allows users to save page position setups for later uses.
• New option to duplicate editorial reservations a number of times when reserving editorials directly on the book plan.
• New option to fill inserts and onserts with ad, edit, or neutral content when the item is created.
• New left menu slide out for page details views with regions. Makes viewing editions of pages much quicker.
• Merge tool can now show and hide individual ads and editorials.
• New clipboard feature to bulk remove editorials and new match to features allows bulk shape matching of existing editorials.
• New option when flowing editorial hits another editorial to pickup flow on another page.
• New option added to allow regional circulation numbers to be managed separately from the printed edition's region set.
• "Runlist View" now allows for black plate change selection and shows plate change count.

SMA

• New left menu interface
• New option added to allow import csv files for digital ad reservations.
• Issue codes can now be used when delivering digital ads.

Photo Portal

• New "Collections" functionality, allows for a photography select workflow on large batches of photos.
• New "Photo Jobs" functionality, allows for photo markup and corrections by in-house or remote corrections staffs.
• New "PhotoManager" Photoshop plugin created for use alongside our Photo Jobs functionality to aide in a corrections workflow.
• New "Photos" menu item listed under "Editorials" in order to show photos as they are connected to specific editorials.

Editorial Manager Plugin

• Regions are now listed in the editorial table view.
• New "Archive" functionality in plugin allows setup of an archival destination for package archival of indesign files.

May 21st 2018 Release Notes

Virtual Publisher

• Signatures & Onserts tab have been joined into one single tab. This reduces clicking and allows users to see all of the book content in a single stack.
• Non-Advertising and Neutral postal options added to ads and editorials.
• Big updates to weights, calipers, and ad calculation systems in preparation for USPS Page Certification.
• New configurable left side menu. See preview here.
• Clicking on a folio in the clipboard will scroll directly to the item in the plan. This can save a lot of time looking for content.
• New precision positioning tool can be found in the page menu, allows users to finely position page items.
• New ability to quick merge ad reservation that are custom sizes by drag and drop.
• Multi page ad reservations are now supported in CSV ad imports. The new required field is named  "Page Count".
• New support for multiple text boxes per text assignment in editorial assignments portion of the site.
• When adding book plans, more common folio setup is now used as a standard to make it easier.
• Clipboard is now displayed on signatures list view.  
• New option on inserts and onserts to allow extra weight and caliper to be added to special execution types like "Magnastrip" and "Hangers".
• Wording of "Thickness" across the product has been changed to the more standard "Caliper".
• Removed options on inserts and onserts to count advertising and editorial. It is now required to count all reservation content in book plan items. All reserved content on inserts and onserts are now counted as they are set.
• Snapshots now show regional versioned pages on the last page.
• Pressform data can now be imported and exported. 

Editorial Manager Indesign Plugin Release

• Many enhancements to the user interface
• Support for multiple text boxes per assignment

Assignment Manager InCopy Plugin Release

• Many enhancements to the user interface
• Assignments now open as multiple text boxes per assignment when available.

SendMyAd

• Multi page ad reservations are now supported in CSV ad imports. 
• New option to control VP licenses when adding users. Virtual Publisher required.  The new required field is named  "Page Count".

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.

New Hotfixes August 31 2017

Release notes for Aug 31 hot fixes

Signature, Supplied Item changes

• VP: Signatures tab renamed to "Signatures & Inserts". All inserts are now managed from this list.
• VP: Supplied Items tab renamed to "Onserts & Polybags". This list now contains only items running outside of the book.
• VP: Inserts now show in book plan as all pages by default. Old style inserts will still exist but are being phased out.
• VP: Inserts are draggable on the book plan by grabbing the name label.
• VP: Inserts are now shown as starting on page, instead of starting after page. We found that publishers think in placement term as "In the fold". This means our previous form setups of placing inserts "After a page" were wrong and confusing.
• VP Polybags and wraps now show extra information on the form like:
• Creation Date
• Created By User
• Last Update
• Thickness
• Weight
• VP: Support for offline option in polybags, wraps and onserts
• VP: Support for include percent forward to adjust the percentages on the plan to include in the percentage counting or not.
• VP: New option to override the page numbering for specific inserts without effecting the main plan folio numbers.

Edition System Changes

• New inline id field added to the edition list view. This id can be used to identify unique books by their content.
• Changes to the edition calculation engine to support compacting region markets into the distribution region when possible.
• Changes to the edition calculation engine to support demographics breaking single editions out for states or local markets.
• Easier to manage regions list per plan by clicking on whole row

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.

Hotfix Feature Release May 09 2017

• New feature allows publisher users to drag & drop ad (JPG or PNG) previews directly on to ad reservations in Virtual Publisher
  https://screencast.com/t/bavk7Kw6Xy
• New SMA and VP file delivery tags added for 
• SpreadSideCode
• ColorProfileName
• ColorProfileCode 
• Fixed bug in VP weight calculator causing some reports to show 0 on weights.