Broadsign Ayuda 7.2x Release Notes (2021)

Added

Splash Player

Improved

API

  • Sales: Added endpoint to retrieve all campaigns for a contract number.
  • Assets:
    • Updated the faces API endpoint to get the basic details of all the Faces.
    • Included face type information in the faces and face detail endpoints.

Search Filters

  • Assets: Improved Media Type search filters behavior when searching different Media Types from different Media Groups.

Added

Splash

Splash/Assets

  • Site Basic Info: If there are coordinates entered at the Site level, Google Maps shows the Site’s location on the map.

  • Face Basic Info:
    • If there is a picture for the Face and marked with the flag “primary”, then show the picture for Face under Basic Info.
    • If there are coordinates entered at the Face level, Google Maps shows the Face’s location on the map.

Improved

Admin

  • Admin/Operations:
    • Ported all the Operations and Copy Business sections from the BMS Connectors to HTML 5 Splash Admin. Operations users will no longer need to download the BMS Connectors as it is all in Splash Admin. The new Operations section in Admin contains:
      • Moved Plants and Maintenance from Admin / Classifications.
      • Moved Vendors from System Admin / Sales.

      • See Operations.
  • Splash/Operations/Work Orders:
    • Maintenance Work Orders: When creating a Maintenance Work Order, the bill poster/posting company will automatically be set to the face’s bill poster/posting company if one is assigned.

    • Maintenance Work Orders: UI modifications for better workflow.

  • Juice/CRM/Accounts:
    • Account Types: Advertisers and Agencies are the two types now available in this section. Other types previously included were moved to their appropriate sections.
      • Posting Companies: Splash→ Admin→ Operations.
      • Lessors: BMS Connectors

  • Splash Player
    • Linux player is now compatible with MPV version 0.33 and newer.
    • Leader Players are not playing HTML files whenever it runs out of time to validate the file. The player will instead try to replay the current spot or a file from the fallback bundle instead.
  • Sales API
    • Added Endpoints:
      • Get Campaign Attributes by ID
      • Get Campaign Basic Info by ID
      • Get Sales Contract Other Costs

Documentation Updates

  • Menus
    • The top menu items have been updated to better regroup the information.

  • New Static POP Section

  • Documentation Styling
    • Improved color contrast and readability.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash/Scheduling/Dashboard:
    • Scheduling Dashboard: When a campaign has a regular agency and specialist agency, the scheduling dashboard no longer shows the segment twice.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash/Assets/Faces:
    • Pricing Calendar: Now you can search faces by the assigned pricing calendar.

    • Dynamically change Number of Spots and Number of Bookings depending on the media group static vs. digital.

  • Splash/Assets/Face Packs:
    • Pricing Calendar: Now you can search face packs by the assigned pricing calendar.

    • Pricing Calendar: The ability to bulk edit pricing calendar for face packs.

  • Splash/Assets/Frames:
    • Vendors: Now you can search by vendor code in the vendor filter on the frame search.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash/Scheduling/Campaigns:
    • Sales User is not allowed to overbook a campaign when Allow Overbooking is not allowed.

Improved

Splash/Content

  • Added Segment Start Date and Segment End Date details to show what campaigns a design is linked to.

Splash Player

  • Linux Players:
    • Installing the dependencies of the player on Linux is now optional. The player can now be installed without prerequisites, therefore allowing the decision to stick to certain versions of prerequisites.
    • (FIXED) Linux Players are now detecting whenever a CEF update does not happen properly and will clean up corrupted data.

Fixed

User Management/SSO

  • When SSO is enabled, you are now able to disable a user through Admin/Workforce.
  • When SSO is enabled, you are now able to add a password to a POP website user in Admin/Workforce.

POP Website

  • Location List details: map is now loading for the location.
  • Better UI: able to see face details in map view.

Splash

  • Splash/Scheduling/Campaigns:
    • Additional Revenue: All information captured in additional revenue fields are now copying over from the original campaign when using the duplicate campaign feature.
      • Scheduled dates
      • Quantity
      • Unit Cost
      • Brand
      • Face Size
      • Artwork Due Date
      • Media Type

Fixed

Splash Player

  • Forward & Store: Adding a Trailing "/" after the Folder path for Forward & Store no longer causes the downloaded additional files to be deleted.
  • Fillers: Fillers in a bundle without Aspect Ratio filtering now appearing in NOC Loops.
  • Full Check-Ins: Attributes Sync now happens when a full check-in is happening.
  • Clock Sync Feature: The Clock Sync feature has been reworked for optimal performance.

Splash

  • Splash/Content/Media Bundles:
    • Files in Bundle Column: The Bundle column is now showing how many files are in each bundle.

  • Splash/Assets:
    • Bulk Edit for Inventory Attributes: The correct attribute value is now preselected.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash/Reports/Master Report:
    • Updated the report to include a new column for Media Net Amount:

  • Splash/Scheduling/Campaigns:
    • Additional Revenue:
      • Added the Media Type field to the detailed Additional Revenue form.
      • Adjusted the layout of the fields in the UI to be more intuitive.

  • Single Sign-On (SSO) Integration with Okta:
  • Splash Player:
    • FTP Updates:
      • Fixed the missing FTP Proxy configuration in Player Configuration Model.
      • Now using the Fluent FTP for FtpFileProcessor.
    • Attribute Data Updates:
      • On Full-Player Check-in, Proper Attributes are added to check-in data when required.
      • Attribute Data received by the Player in Check-in Data is Parsed and stored in XML.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash/Content/Filler Bundles:
    • Able to add additional "Bundle Asset Restrictions" for filler bundles.

Note: Flash is now deprecated from Splash Player.

Added

Splash

  • Splash/Operations/Work Orders:
    • Added new search columns to work order lists and excel export:
      • Site Category
      • Order on Site
      • Posting Note
      • General Note

Improved

Splash

  • Splash/Scheduling/Campaigns/Designs:
    • Bulk Copy Change:
      • Feature Enhancement: The bulk copy change feature now only shows active postings.

  • Splash/Assets:
    • Player Updates: Whenever attributes of a site, frame, face, or location are updated, the players have a flag set in the database for them to update their attributes on the next player check-in.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash/Home/Dashboard:
    • Campaigns with POP Report Due: Fixed date appearing in “Last segment ended on” to show the actual end date and not the start date of the segment.

  • Splash/Scheduling/Dashboard:
    • Campaign Hyperlinks: Fixed the previously limited functionality (unable to delete designs, etc.) from working on a campaign after using the campaign hyperlinks from the dashboard.

Scheduling

  • Scheduling/Content/Media Files:
    • Dynamic Content: Fixed that dynamic content values are now saving.

Note: We will be deprecating Flash from Splash Player in a future release in 2021.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash/Operations
    • Work Orders: The ability to sort by the Bill Poster column was fixed.

  • Splash/Scheduling/Campaigns
    • The Static Pack booking end date can be changed when it is available or maybe available.

Splash Player

  • Event-Based Takeover
    • All files in takeover bundles are now playing.
  • LinuxBrowser
    • Removed, HTML playback only allowed using CEF browser.
    • Prerequisites needed for the LinuxBrowser were removed from the installer.
  • Double Execution
    • Cannot run two instances of the player on the same machine.
  • location.xml
    • Players now have the location.xml file updated correctly when added to the player screen.

Note: We will be deprecating Flash from Splash Player in a future release in 2021.

Added

Splash

  • Splash/Content
    • Retiring Designs Feature: Allows a user to retire, and re-activate if needed, different types of designs. This works for both static and digital files in all of the following sections:
      • Media Files
      • Editorial Content
      • Filler Content
    • Documentation: See Retiring a Design.

  • Splash/Scheduling/Campaigns
    • Ride Static Bookings Feature: Allows a static booking to ride between segments and campaigns if the design/posting will not be changed for a specific face. This will eliminate the need for unnecessary work orders to be generated. For example, if you have face #XYZ showing design #ABC for 3 consecutive 4-week segments of your campaign, you can ride the booking from the first 4-week segment through the other 2 4-week segments. Only a work order for the initial posting will be generated, and work orders for the other 2 4-week segments will be eliminated, as the design will remain the same.
    • Documentation: Riding Postings

  • Splash/Assets/Sites
    • Dynamic Blueprints Feature: Allows users who configure assets to upload multiple blueprints to a site and then place pins on those images representing that inventory. The site’s inventory is sortable by unpinned and pinned faces, media type, or blueprint. Pins can be repositioned or moved between blueprints at any time. This feature is ideal for indoor properties such as shopping malls.
    • Documentation: Dynamic Blueprints

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash/Scheduling/Campaigns
    • Media Group & Media Type Validation when Adding Segments: The system confirms that the media type options available are based on the media group that is selected.

  • Splash/Reports
    • Proof of Play Report: A bug that prevented the download of the Proof of Play report of certain campaigns was fixed.

  • Splash/Assets/Faces
    • Copying Faces: Inactive attributes will now be ignored when the system copies a face.

  • Splash/Assets
    • Back Button Missing: A bug that had the back button missing on asset navigation.

Juice

  • Juice/Sales/Avails
    • Order on Site Filter: The avails search result can be sorted by the "Order in the Site" field.

POST App

  • Broadsign Ayuda Apps will now appear under the Broadsign Apple Account (Compagnie Broadsign Canada) in the Apple Store.