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.

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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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File Delivery Update

• Added support for delivery of the original uploaded ad.

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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.

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Ereader/iPad Zip Update

• Added new view for browsing uploaded zip files. The left panel was too crowded to see the zip hierarchy.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

New Features for Digital Ads, Part 2

This screencast shows some new options for setting up digital ads, like an automatic IAB ad size converter, the ability to control metadata fields that appear on the uploader, and expanded click tag support.

New Features for Digital Ads, Part 1

This screencast shows a few new features when uploading a digital ad. We can now retrieve an ad from the web automatically, and give you an easy way to create a snippet to link to a digital ad in your site.

EReader / iPad Ads

SendMyAd now accepts mobile / EReader / iPad ads. This is an optional feature - please ask your account representative for pricing information.

See the video for details on how this works.