The Blanchard Systems Software Blog

April 15th Update

VP Features

    GENERAL

• Approvals system now allows customization for notifications and force approve in order for each file type.
• New option to subscribe to scheduled rollouts. This allows you to get an auto email when a rollout is scheduled and completed.

   
    BOOK PLANNING & PRODUCTION

• New cover signature offset system. Cover signatures can have up to 8 pages on the front side of the book.
• New options in the signature details list view to inject a signature as a selected signature's start position.
• New option in the signature details list view to auto-rename all signatures from a selected position.
• Plan Items clipboard view has same filters as SendMyAd. This allows users to get the same list view as SMA.
• Ad clipboard has new filtering pulldown which can now show both placed and unplaced items. 
• Ad clipboard includes filter to show insertion orders and materials without insertion orders. This allows users to more easily see what ads have been merged with incoming ad reservations and which have not.
• Merged ads are no longer removed from the system but are now archived in the removed folder. This allows complete restoration of data merged content. 
• Folio number and Proposed folio can now be seen on the ad clipboard.
• Insert system has been completely redesigned to allow same full flexibility of a vp book plan.
• Inserts now have exact weight option which overrides paper weight calculations.
• Plans now have optional glue weight and ink weight fields.
• Plan sections now have option to set an editorial due date and an ad due date. This can be combined with a new SMA feature to require section selection on the ad upload form.
• Plans can now be setup to have a forced grid size based on columns and or rows. Can be setup in the publication details.
• New downloadable bindery report in signatures view.
• Delivery of completed pages in Virtual Publisher now has downloadable report.
• Delivery of completed pages in Virtual Publisher now has section field and section filtering options.
• Many enhancements to the ad data merge interface, easier now to merge an ad material with an insertion order.
• Added ad credit hold system. Red overlay on ads with credit hold.
• Added cancel ad system. Red overlay on ads with cancelled mark.
• Nearly fully integrated Virtual publisher with Datatrax ad point of sales system.
• Many enhancements to ad import view. Import details added to plan history, added downloadable report, details added to plan log, easy view table of changes, and option to mark items red in the book plan which were changed.
• New externalId option added to import ads screen. Allows publisher to choose a different field other than materialsId to key off of ads.
• Added option to mark editorials as advertisements in the editorial csv data import.
• Ability to increase text on plan snapshots.
• Split spreads will always stick together now in VP when dragging from clipboard, to clipboard or around in plan view.
• New option for Virtual Publisher companies to not remove margin on incoming editorial files. By default VP removes margin on incoming files.
• Added new field option on insert details to denote if insert is supplied or not.
• VP only ads can now be changed to and from SMA + VP or VP Only.           

    WORKITEM SYSTEM

• Removed need select issue in work items list view.
• Workitems no longer editable after the file is complete.

VP Bug fixes

• Issues with pickups not working on CSV ad imports.
• Some fields not emptying on csv ad import updates.
• Fixed bug with editorial details view displaying out of order in rare situations.
• Ad merge system bug fixes. Merging ad data should work correctly now.

SMA Features

    GENERAL

• New option to subscribe to scheduled rollouts. This allows you to get an auto email when a rollout is scheduled and completed.
• Approvals system now allows customization for notifications and force approve in order for each file type.

    PRINT ADS

• Section selection option now available on ad upload form for companies with Virtual Publisher. This allows publishers to force advertisers to select a section before uploading.
• Added ad credit hold system. Red overlay on ads with credit hold.
• Added cancel ad system. Red overlay on ads with cancelled mark.
• Nearly fully integrated Virtual publisher with Datatrax ad point of sales system.

    AD CREATOR

• Ad creator now has new "internal data field" option to map an ad template field to an existing field in SendMyAd. This makes reporting and list view easier to see specific template data.

SMA Bug Fixes

    GENERAL

• Ad sizes view no longer shows ad sizes from publications which are disabled.

    AD CREATOR

• Ad creator now has better phone number formatting for alpha based phone numbers.
• Ad creator image editor bug fixed with squished image when fitting to frame or centering.
• Placeholder text is now stripped if user does not enter anything.