We have updated the SendMyAd website (www.sendmyad.com) with a page to allow our users to check the current status of the SendMyAd Portal. In the case of downtime, users can check this link periodically to see the status of the Portal.
The new page can be found here.
There will also be a link added to the website for access.
Thanks,
The SendMyAd Team
Monday, April 11, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Features and Fixes March 2011
New features included in our March upgrade:
Enhancements
Better Bleed Detection
Other Minor Enhancements
Bug Fixes
Better Bleed Detection
- There is now a bleed preflight check which has a tolerance value just like trim. This allows publishers to flag bleed sizes that are too large and to accept bleed sizes that are slightly under your specifications.
- If your portal is has partnerships with other SendMyAd publisher sites, advertisers will now be able to pick up and copy ads between all titles regardless of publisher.
- There is now a way to simply copy multiple ads in a single publication to a new issue.
- A new coordinate based ad notes system has been added. Publishers and advertisers can now draw note boxes on individual ads for tracking specific problematic areas.
- We have added new reminder screen for advertisers. This screen appears when an advertiser uploads an ad an then closes the details view before it is approved or rejected.
- Existing users will not get emails if re-invited by another user.
- New report shown immediately after attempting to invite customers listing number of successes, failures, and skipped invitations to existing users. Poorly formed email addresses are shown so they can be corrected.
- Publishers may remove an invitee from their list to prevent duplicate re-invitations from being sent to a customer.
Other Minor Enhancements
- Publishers may choose to hide pickup details from ad history, XMP metadata and receipts. This is intended primarily for multi-publisher sites and the new universal pickup featured noted above.
- Translation edits no longer require a user to clear their browser cache.
- Usability improvements for users resetting their password.
- Improvements to materials requests when users are assigned late in the process.
- Adds an option to "Ads per issue (by issue)" report to omit hidden and archived ads.
- Help button available when uploading ads. It contains common solutions for users having problems using the uploader.
- More informative display of video tutorial links includes the duration of each video and a description.
- Ad sizes can now all be copied from one publication into another one.
- XMP metadata and digital receipt will show information about the source for copied ads. (Ads that were "sent to other pubs.").
- Resolves issue with ads being offset improperly after trimming (found only in rare cases after the ad was reprocessed).
- Archived ads have only appropriate action options available to them.
- Improved behavior of Manage Ads at lowest supported screen resolution, 1024 x 768.
- Downloading large original files (under "Assets" in the ad details view) will be much more reliable.
- Resolves issue with ad sizes losing their connection to delivery locations.
- Better bleed size preflighting for rotated files.
- Allow users to access repositioning tool to fix over sized bleeds if there are no other errors.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Features and Fixes Jan 2011
Features
Fixes
- SMA Official Help Manual 1.0 release. To view go to Sma Help area and click manual button. Not all entries are available yet but we are working diligently to complete the manual.
- Publishers can now change the ad contact associated with the ad. This is useful for publishers who upload ads on behalf of their customers and would like the customer to be able to access the SMA ad. This can be found in the left side ad view panel under job ticket.
- Upload Times can now be seen in the ad view file properties panel.
- Ipad ads with both horizontal and vertical previews can now be rotated to see both preview types.
- Ad View left panel resizers. This is particularly helpful for French Canadian language users. In the ad view you can now re-size the left panel by grabbing the resize handle at the top right of the panel. You may also re-size the inputs and label distance by grabbing the space between the label and input. See video here.
- Skype integration. If a user has their skype profile set as public and fill their skype name out in the SMA user profile, the user may be directly contacted via skype from several views.
- The views:
- Chat View
- Customer List View
- User Profile View
- Better GWG integrations
- Incoming GWG ads now make more attempts to connect with the existing SMA users.
- Outgoing files maintain GWG information that is missing from the SendMyAd data.
- Publishers can now change the text displayed when ads reach the revision limit.
- If you are a publisher who is in a group with other SMA publishers, you can now gain the right to see all customers who join the parent publisher's portal.
- Publishers using "publisher approval system" can now enforce materialsId or booking number to be present before approving the final ad.
- SWF ads now show thumbnails in the ad list and thumbview.
- New email notification for when assets are uploaded to an ad.
- New option for managing material ID numbers during pickup: Create an entirely new materialId for a new publication, or keep the same if pub is unchanged.
- Add additional validations to ensure properly formatted and unique publication codes.
Fixes
- Calendars can now be translated to different languages.
- Better user interface for users who are registering with an existing SMA account. This reduces company redundancies.
- Many improvements to translation text support.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Features and Fixes
This update was mostly dedicated to under the hood improvements designed to facilitate the upcoming digital ad portal enhancements. There were a few random improvements of note.
Feature: Publishers can remove relationships with their customers.This can now be done in the customers management area.
There is a new button that says remove relationship with customer.
Feature: New delivery location feature supports sending files directly to a delivery destination upon file upload.
In the delivery destinations setup there is a new drop down entry which allows uploaded files to be directly forwarded to an offsite location. Upon selection of this option a new filter drown appears which asks which type of files you wish to send.
Since this is designed as a backup or forwarding method there are 2 items it does not support.
1. Issues: in this case we do not support multiple delivery of files by issue since there can be more than one issue and we dont want to needlessly deliver the file more than once upon upload.
2. Specification filters: Since this item is filtered already by file type it negates the specification filter option.
Feature: Issue Run Date and Materials Due Date can be managed down to the second.
There is also a new item which informs the user if the issue will run in less than 24 hours.
Large Change: Web Containers (Websites) management has now been moved under the company profile and renamed to "Web Media Profiles".
This was done because most customers will only need one web media profile and the left menu item was overkill.
Feature: New translation manager in place which can allow publishers add possible translatable phrases.
Feature: PDFx1a Compression added. This is an option that must be confirmed through support.
This option maintains 100% quality of the printable PDF while reducing its size using compression. This helps download and delivery speed tremendously.
Feature: Folio Number added to the main ad list view.
This new column is only reflecting the folio data which can be found in the job ticket portion of each ad.
Feature: Publishers can remove relationships with their customers.This can now be done in the customers management area.
There is a new button that says remove relationship with customer.
Feature: New delivery location feature supports sending files directly to a delivery destination upon file upload.
In the delivery destinations setup there is a new drop down entry which allows uploaded files to be directly forwarded to an offsite location. Upon selection of this option a new filter drown appears which asks which type of files you wish to send.
Since this is designed as a backup or forwarding method there are 2 items it does not support.
1. Issues: in this case we do not support multiple delivery of files by issue since there can be more than one issue and we dont want to needlessly deliver the file more than once upon upload.
2. Specification filters: Since this item is filtered already by file type it negates the specification filter option.
Feature: Issue Run Date and Materials Due Date can be managed down to the second.
There is also a new item which informs the user if the issue will run in less than 24 hours.
Large Change: Web Containers (Websites) management has now been moved under the company profile and renamed to "Web Media Profiles".
This was done because most customers will only need one web media profile and the left menu item was overkill.
Feature: New translation manager in place which can allow publishers add possible translatable phrases.
Feature: PDFx1a Compression added. This is an option that must be confirmed through support.
This option maintains 100% quality of the printable PDF while reducing its size using compression. This helps download and delivery speed tremendously.
Feature: Folio Number added to the main ad list view.
This new column is only reflecting the folio data which can be found in the job ticket portion of each ad.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Latest Release Features & Fixes
We are putting the finishing touches on our next release of SendMyAd. Included in this feature are the usual behind-the-scenes improvements and optimizations to continually improve the performance for our users. In addition, look for these changes and new features:
Publishers Notification Update
- Support requests from the ad details view now go to the publication's default material contact. Likewise if a user sends a support request from the Dashboard, and select a publication in the help form.
Translations Update
- Dashboard Events will alert publishers that there is text in need of translations. This will help you keep on top of ongoing translation needs when new features are introduced in the site. We also exploring ways internally to keep track of all new translations and notify effected customers of the changes.
Ad Preflighting Update
- Fixed bug in preflight minimum maximum line width tracking. To correct please go to your preflight report and check your line widths.
File Delivery Update
- Added support for delivery of the original uploaded ad.
Revision Handling update
- New option in ad actions menu to boost an advertiser's revision limit. This is useful when an advertiser has reached the revision limit and you wish to manually increase that limit. The default adds 10 to the current limit.
Ereader/iPad Zip Update
- Added new view for browsing uploaded zip files. The left panel was too crowded to see the zip hierarchy.
Digital Ads Updates
- Preflight settings of digital ads moved to a profile setup where a single profile can be applied to all ad unit sizes at one time. Very similar to how print ads already work. Notice: If you are demoing the digital ad portal you will need to update your new preflight profiles to match your old settings. These were reset in the upgrade.
- Support for IAB image, rich media and digital video size spec import added.
- More campaign information on upload form and better campaign tracking.
- Websites option in the left menu renamed to Web containers.
- When uploading rich media ads, there is a new option to allow multiple file type. Previously only jpg was an option.
General Site Changes
- Improved our upgrade process, greatly reducing the need for clearing the browser cache after a site upgrade.
- Increased the flash version requirement to 10. The trim tool now requires Flash version 10. Check your version here.
- Increased browser requirements.
- New Requirements
- FireFox 3.5+
- Safari 4
- Now supporting Google Chrome
- IE 8
- We did not change any of the actually lock out of site limits. These are just posted as the minimum requirements. We strongly believe pushing for the latest browser versions helps keep the internet more secure and feature rich.
Friday, September 10, 2010
New right to see publisher's action menu
We've also added a new right to allow or restrict access to the publisher actions menu when viewing an ad. The new right is called "Can see publisher action menu" and can be assigned per group. The default publisher groups will have this right. You will need to add it to any custom groups you've created that need access to this feature.
To do this, visit Manage > Groups, and select each group that must be edited. You can assign the right in the editor view that appears under the Rights section.
To do this, visit Manage > Groups, and select each group that must be edited. You can assign the right in the editor view that appears under the Rights section.
New user right to see Dashboard
Following a publisher's request, we've added a new feature that will be in our next update. It will allow you to choose if your users can see the Dashboard. It's called "Can see Dashboard." It is enabled for all default groups in the system. If you have users that are only in custom groups you've created, you'll need to add this new right to the custom groups to still allow access to the Dashboard.
To do this, just visit the Manage > Groups area, and add the right for each group.
To do this, just visit the Manage > Groups area, and add the right for each group.
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