Wednesday, January 20, 2010

January 2010 Upgrade New Features

The January SendMyAd upgrade includes the following new features:

  1. Publication-specific publisher approvals.

  2. Individual notifications can now be managed at the publication level.

  3. Better digital ad management using website containers.

  4. Publisher customizable metadata.

  5. Add margin to document support.

  6. Advanced search has completely new interface - for ads, publications, users - and better performance.

  7. Multi-language support:


    • Publisher option to select languages approved for use with their portal.

    • Publisher interface to edit custom translation table.

    • User selection of preferred language - and is remembered even on login screen before authentication.

    • Email and site text templates are now customizable for all supported languages.


  8. Dashboard events system allows publisher and site to post important notices for users.

  9. Right created that allows publishers to alter ads after the ad is completed.

  10. Individual ad sizes can have custom closing dates using an offset from the publication run date.

  11. Ability to cancel queued deliveries.

  12. Current timestamp is now available as a variable when delivering files for the file or directory name.

  13. New footer on all outgoing emails. Copyright notice, link to privacy policy and email template code for troubleshooting included for now.
  14. Advertisers now can view the preflight report (under Actions menu) for an ad after it has been approved.

  15. Email variables concerning ads are expanded and standardized across all templates.

  16. Delivered count as optional table column for publishers only.

  17. Easy access column preferences and column reordering.

  18. Notes in ad view always show notes count.



As always, any bug fixes you might have been promised are included in this update.

Watch this blog for video tutorials for all the new features starting this evening through the next few days.

Monday, November 23, 2009

New Enhancement: Materials Id in Thumbnails view

For all of the people who wanted to see the materials id on the thumbnail view, it is now available.
You must be signed in as a publisher to view this option and if there is no materials id, the item will not show up.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Manual file delivery

SendMyAd now allows manual, user-driven deliveries of completed ads.

The best part is that you can rename the file for the manual deliveries to whatever you wish.

Watch the screencast for a quick tutorial.

Digital Ad Portal Proves Effective for St. Joseph Media

A great story about how SendMyAd helped St. Joseph media advance their ad production workflow.

http://www.pubexec.com/article/digital-ad-portal-proves-effective-st-joseph-media/1?sponsor=newsletter/pe-inbox

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Download Ad Specs

Our recent upgrade includes a new feature in beta testing. This feature provides a way for advertisers to download your Ad Sizes as InDesign documents.

We currently do not create the InDesign file for the ad sizes automatically. If you wish to make this feature available for your users, you must edit each ad spec individually. You can edit any field in the ad spec to trigger the .INX file generation. An easy way to do this is to edit the ad size code field, hit tab or click another field to save the change, then return to the code field to restore the original code value.

You'll then see the button to download the .INX file in the ad size viewer:

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Customizable message for upload form

Responding to numerous feature requests, we've added a new feature that allows you to create a customizable message for each of your publications. Whenever a user uploads an ad, they will see this message, depending on the publication they select.

You control the message in the publication setup.

The best part is that you can post HTML links so you now have a way to present your own media kit or schedule PDF files right where the advertiser will see them.

View tutorial here.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Revamped advanced search

We have completely revamped the advanced search window to simplify the options and to provide quicker search results.

Look for an upcoming how-to video in the site.

It's still accessed by clicking the magnifying glass in the Quick Search widget.

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