Broadsign Ayuda 7.3x Release Notes

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Assets / Faces
    • Added a new filter to search faces that are linked to a blueprint.

    • Added a new text search for adding Attributes to Faces.

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns / Hourly POP Report
    • Added a new filter to ignore expected plays from certain purchase types.

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns / Scheduling Groups
  • Splash / General
    • Added the UI Controller endpoint authentication to close a potential security breach.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns / Hourly POP Report
    • Fixed an issue that would prevent to use the default date range for the Hourly POP report while loading default search filters. The date range will always be set to the last 7 days by default.

Alto

  • Retired Faces are no longer visible in the list of Units.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / NOC / Cloud Extenders

    • Display a more meaningful value of the OS version for Cloud Extenders.

Splash Player

  • Splash Player is officially supported on Ubuntu 24.
  • Added a new Programmatic Backoff Retry Count setting in player Expert Mode to control the throttling of programmatic ad requests after multiple empty responses.
  • Added a new Programmatic Precaching Interval (sec) setting in player Expert Mode to control the frequency of the Programmatic precached content sync.

Improved

API v2

  • When querying a Digital Booking Line for its details, the Segment ID, or Sales Contract Item ID is now returned.

Splash

  • Splash / Content / Media Bundles

    • The Media Bundle valid dates are now showing in the bundle list.

Alto

  • Alto / Bundles
    • Bundles which are past their valid dates are no longer listed in Alto.
  • Alto / Advertisers
    • Inactive Advertisers are no longer being returned in the Advertiser picker.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Pricing / Media Rate Cards
    • Fixed an issue preventing users to link multiple rate card values to the same face.
  • Splash / Assets / Face Packs
    • Fixed an issue when looking up attributes to search faces to add to a face pack.

Splash Player & Splash Cloud Extender

  • Fixed an issue preventing an ad response to follow through with link redirection.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Assets / Faces

    • Inventory Attribute filter now supports text-based searching.

Splash Player

  • Added a feature allowing to sort consecutive programmatic ads by VAST sequence number.

Fixed

POP Website

  • Fixed an issue preventing the zip file(s) downloaded from the POP website from opening on macOS.

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue leading to zip files being deleted right after being downloaded until the next restart.

  • Fixed an issue leading to overextending filled up player loops with programmatic slots.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Assets / Faces

    • When looking at a Face’s Basic Information, a new section called Blueprint is visible whenever the Face is pinned to a Blueprint. A link will redirect you to the Blueprint page where the Face is pinned.

  • Splash / Admin / Attributes
    • When adding or editing an Inventory Attribute, it is now possible to restrict the Asset hierarchy level at which to restrict the attribute.

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns
    • When running an Hourly POP Report, it is now possible to filter out certain Purchase Types.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Admin / Workforce / User Management
    • Fixed an issue regarding a vulnerability that allows a user to reset the password of other users without permission.
  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns and Juice / Sales / Campaigns
    • Fixed an issue that was slowing down the search for Proposals and Campaign.
  • Splash / Reports
    • Fixed an issue that was preventing users from accessing POP reports.

Improved

API

  • Added the unlinkFromFacePacks parameter in the face saleability API endpoints. When set to "true", this parameter automatically unlinks a face from its associated face packs when you mark it as retired or non-saleable. This change gives API users more direct control over face pack management.

Splash Player

  • The Loop content shuffle has been reworked, but this rework can be disabled in the event that it is too much.

Splash

  • Splash / Reports
    • Enhanced the Master Report to correctly display Account Executive distribution for contracts with multiple Account Executives.

Fixed

Juice

  • Juice / Sales / Static Avails
    • Fixed an issue where the “Face Inactive?” flag indicating inactivity was not displayed in the static avails list.

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the retrieval of proper information about whether a player was the leader in the sync group via the internal API.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented videos longer than 15 minutes from completing successfully.

Improved

Pi API

  • Improved the performance when executing GetDigitalBookingLineZonesWithOverwrittenSchedule and GetSiteAttributes.

APIv3

  • It is now possible to create Audience Matrices from APIv3.

Fixed

Juice

  • Juice / Sales / Static Avails
    • Fixed an issue with the display of bookings when scrolling in timeline avails.

Improved

Splash Player

  • Splash Player is now supported on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
  • The Face’s uniqueidentifier is now provided to HTMLs after they are loaded, instead of at playtime.
  • Time differences whenever a programmatic ad replacing a booked slot lasts longer is now deducted from unsold programmatic time in a loop.

Juice

  • Juice / Sales / Static Avails
    • The timeline view in static avails, when grouped by month, now properly displays longer design names.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns
    • Fixed an issue with bulk editing the gross amount when the format is non-US.
  • Splash / Asset / Vehicles
    • Fixed an issue that prevented the users from updating vehicles.
  • Splash / Campaigns / Digital POP report
    • Fixed an issue that prevented thumbnails of designs to show properly in the Proof of Play report.
  •  Splash / Content / Media Files
    • Fixed an issue that would slow down the browser, while preventing thumbnails to show in the list of designs.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Reports
    • The SignedOn Date column in the "Campaigns by Created or Modified Date" report is now displayed according to the user's local time zone.
  • Splash / Home / Dashboard
    • The dashboard section has been optimized to load faster.

POP Website

  • To improve the user experience, we have addressed an issue that may have caused timeouts when generating lengthy Completion reports. We enhanced the performance of Completion reports to prevent these timeouts.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / NOC
    • Fixed an issue which prevents bundles with design valid dates to be properly represented in NOC Loops.
  •  Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns

    • Fixed an issue with the calendar picker not functioning correctly during Face booking start and end date selection.

Improved

Splash API

  • Added new API endpoints to manage Static Face notes.

Splash

Fixed

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue where a black screen would play when an HTML file is queued.
  • Fixed an issue where loops are regenerating every minute.
  • Fixed an issue where Sold and Guaranteed Bonus bookings would be preempted if the purchase type is set so that bookings can be replaced by ad serving content.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns
    • Enhanced the bulk edit feature to automatically update the Automatic billing schedule.

Fixed

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns
    • Fixed an issue where the bulk edit window displayed incorrect end dates for digital packs.

Patch: 7.3016.60322

Fixed

API

  • Fixed an issue with API v2 IKnowFlags registration.
  • Fixed an issue where the Get and Set campaign API v2 call ignores the hold expiry date.

Improved

Splash Player

  • Bookings that can be replaced by programmatic bookings will no longer automatically play when the loop is full or oversaturated with fixed bookings.
  • Windows Player will now automatically add a Windows Firewall exception during the update process.

Admin

  • Admin / Workforce / Users
    • Added a new “Campaign View User” role allowing read-only access to the Campaigns section in Juice.
    • See Roles Overview.

Fixed

BMS COnnectors

  • BMS connectors no longer prompt for .NET update if the required version is already present

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue preventing correct filtering of fillers and filler bundles when multiple geographical restrictions.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Content / Media Files
    • Added the Include/Exclude restriction option to the individual design.

API

  • Improved the Face Size API to allow filtering by width and height.

BMS Connectors

  • Removed the Asset Groups tab from the System Admin Connector.

Fixed

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue preventing undersaturated spots from playing consecutively.

Improved

API

  • Added a new set of APIs to manage Notes to be set on digital faces.

Splash

  • Splash / Campaigns / Scheduling Groups
    • Added a toggle that allows selecting digital faces if a face has any of the attributes listed in the Scheduling Groups filter instead of all of them.
  • Splash / Campaigns / Additional Revenues
    • Quantity and Unit Costs of booking level additional revenues are now visible in the Additional Revenue tab of Campaigns.

  • Splash / NOC / Loop Preview
    • Added a toggle to speed up performance of Loop Preview generation if no design valid dates are used in general.
  • Splash / Assets / Face Packs
    • Removed the Approvals Rate Card section of the Pricing tab of Face Packs, as the feature is deprecated.

Fixed

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue that was preventing two undersaturated spots from playing back to back.

Splash

  • Splash / Campaigns / Export Campaigns
    • Fixed an issue that was preventing external users from viewing photosheets without logging in to the Broadsign Ayuda Platform.
  • Splash / Campaigns
    • Corrected a typo showing Segments as Sales Contract Items in the search box.
  • Splash / Assets / Faces
    • Fixed the formatting of error messages in the text box when adding an attribute to a face.

Improved

Juice

  • Juice / Sales / Avails and Juice / Sales / Campaigns
    • Minor adjustments in the interface to remove unnecessary duplicates.
      • Removed the duplicate Area column in the avails section and the exported excel sheet.
      • Removed the Minimum Rate column from the static avails section and the exported excel sheet.
      • Removed the duplicate Check box column from the Contacts tab of the campaign.

      • UI Changes

  • Juice / Sales / Digital Pack Avails
    • Added a new filter to search availability by Face Pack Attributes.

      • Face Pack Attributes

POST App

  • Added the marker clustering functionality to prevent accidental touches on closely positioned map pins and improve UX.

    • POST

APIs

  • Added new API v3 endpoints to manage campaigns, segments and additional revenues:
    • GET campaigns
    • GET campaign/{campaignId}
    • GET campaigns/{campaignId}/additional-revenue-bookings
    • POST campaigns/{campaignId}
    • PUT campaigns/{campaignId}
    • GET segments/{segmentId}
    • PATCH segments/{segmentId}
  • Added a new API v3 endpoint to fetch hourly POP for:
    • Campaigns
    • Filler Bundles

Fixed

Juice

  • Fixed an issue where deleting a face from the cart for certain dates deletes all references to that face from the cart.
  • Updated the incorrect column name in the Excel version of the Pacing + Pipeline report.

Splash

  • Fixed an issue where the purchase order would not load from the campaign when the contract number contained letters.

Admin

  • Fixed the Name filter in the Admin / Workforce / Job titles and Admin / Workforce / Roles sections.
  • Fixed an issue where users could not add a new sales market from the Splash UI or BMS connectors.

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue preventing the update of the Splash Player from older versions (like 7.3007.59286) to the latest version.

Other

  • Updated the BMS Connector redirect .NET Framework URL link in the BMS install web page.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Assets / Zones
    • Zones have now their own inventory attributes.

      • Zone Attribute

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns & Splash / Content / Filler Bundles
    • The Hourly POP report for Filler bundles and Digital Campaigns can now be triggered via APIs.

Juice

  • Juice / Sales / Digital Pack Avails
    • Digital Face Packs can now be searched by Face Pack Attributes.

      • Search

  • Juice / CRM / Accounts

    • Default Agency Commission Percentage can now be added to agencies.
    • Documentation: Managing Accounts.

      • Agency Commission

Splash Player

  • Added a watchdog to prevent the player from hanging in certain situations.

APIs

  • Added new APIs to upload Digital Design Files.
  • Added new APIs to upload Static Copy Files.
  • Added new APIs to View Campaigns and Segments.
  • Added new APIs to Create new Campaigns.

Fixed

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue preventing HTML samples scheduled on faces without any attributes to play properly.
  • Fixed an issue preventing NOC Loops to show designs outside of their valid dates.
  • Fixed an issue preventing proper player check-ins when many player events were being sent.

Improved

POST App

  • The POST app for Android now has the ability to display multiple postings on Google Maps that share the same latitude and longitude value.
  • Documentation: Bill Posting Tasks.

    • Multiple Postings

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue which was grouping all undersaturated spots in the first loop.
  • Unified FTPS behavior to work only with Explicit FTPS.

Improved

API

  • Added APIs to get the details of a campaign.
  • Added APIs to manage Digital Faces.

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns
    • Segment Pricing can now be recalculated on a per-segment basis.

      • Segment Pricing

Splash Player

  • The playoutinfo Player interrupt API endpoint now has more comprehensive information on the type of spot playing.
  • Filler Bundles and Filler files restrictions now allow to target or avoid values.

    • Restrictions

Fixed

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue that was preventing Operating Hours of parent faces of zones to work properly between the players and the NOC Loop preview.

Splash

  • Splash / Assets / Face Packs
    • Fixed an issue that was allowing the Parent Face Packs of a Face Pack to be shown; they are now enabled only when the feature is enabled.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Content / Media Files
    • Added a preview functionality for PDF files.

      • Preview PDF

  • Splash / Campaigns / Designs
    • It is now possible to replace the empty “I don’t have an image yet” file by uploading a new design.

      • Designs

Splash Player

  • Splash Player supports Windows 11.
  • Splash Player requires .net Framework 4.7.1 to be installed on Windows.
  • Escaped characters in VAST media URLs are no longer computed when the URLs are called.

Fixed

Splash Player

  • Fixed an issue which led to Players being displayed on the wrong location on the screen.

Alto

  • Fixed an issue causing an error screen when logging out of Alto.

Improved

API

  • API / Asset / Faces

    • Added APIs to manage digital faces.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns / Takeover
    • Takeover are now cancelled when a campaign is cancelled.
  • Splash / Content / Bundles
    • Now the system prevents users from adding empty designs to a bundle.
  • Splash / NOC / Dashboard
    • Dashboards with maps are now loading.

Juice

  • Juice / Sales / Digital Avails

    • Fixed the Timeline avails zooming in on avails.

API

  • API / Campaign / Attributes

    • Multiple campaign attributes can now be set via the API as it is the case in the UI.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / NOC / Loops
    • NOC Loops links can now be copied and opened in a new browser tab.

      • NOC Loops

  • API

    • Added new API endpoints to manage faces:

      • All face Retired Reasons are accessible.
      • Geo Coordinates for a static face are now accessible via the face’s Original ID.
      • Face saleability can now be retrieved and updated via a face’s faceID.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns
    • Cancelling a campaign now stops the takeovers scheduled on the campaign.
  • Splash API
    • Adding multiple values for a single campaign attribute is now working.

Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Content and Splash / Operations / Static Copies
    • Ability to download uploaded design files directly from the UI.

      • Download File

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns
    • Fixed an issue where Request Content Approval emails were sent for designs not part of the contract.

      • Request Content Approval

  • Splash / Configuration / Loop Templates
    • Fixed an issue where changing the Loop Template of a face would fail because of Voided segments.

Android POST App

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Barcode Scanning feature from opening the camera app on some Android devices.

Improved

API

  • Added new endpoints for fetching all Face Categories and Face Sizes, streamlining the process of Face Creation through our APIs.
  • Added a new endpoint that allows users to set Attributes directly to a Campaign.

Splash Player

  • Added an external FTP downloader for Linux Players and Cloud Extender.
  • Added functionality when playing HTML and Zip files where the player sends the play requests, including the Zone ID as a parameter, to simplify 3rd party verification of content.
  • Added three new versions of CEF: 109.0.5414.120, 110.0.5481.104 and 112.0.5615.165. The different versions are used to fit the different OS versions of the players in the field as follows:
    • OS 109.0.5414.120 110.0.5481.104 112.0.5615.165
    Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2    
    Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows Server 2012    
    Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016
    Windows 11 and Windows Server 2019, 2022
    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  
    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS  
    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

    There is a mechanism which will prevent the player to start a version that is not compatible with the Operating System version that it is running.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns

    • Fixed an issue that prevented 'Request Content' and 'Request Content Approval' emails from being sent.

      • Request Content

  • Splash / Operations / Work Orders
    • Fixed an issue where updating the bill poster of the face via the Operations tab would overwrite its pending Work Orders / WOs bill posters.

      • Note: The system will continue to update/overwrite the bill poster field for WOs without a bill poster.

      Work Orders


Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaign
    • The Bulk Edit feature has been expanded to support Gross Amount editing per booking. The Gross Amount section also supports direct copying and pasting of multiple cells from Excel. Users can now efficiently adjust 'gross amounts' for one, several or all face bookings with just a few clicks.

      • Gross Amount

    • The Export Package performance has been improved. Users can now experience faster and more efficient export package generation.

API

  • Added endpoints to synchronize Static Faces. It is now possible to add, edit and delete static faces using the API.
  • Added endpoints to get all Static and Digital Media Groups and Media Types.
  • Added endpoints to get all Face Illumination and Structure Type values.

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns

    • Fixed an issue where the Digital Proof of Play PDF report was showing the wrong number of expected plays.

      • Proof of Play Report


Improved

Splash

  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaign
    • The Campaign Hourly POP report was rebuilt to be highly reliable, including a more comprehensive status page and link to collect the completed report within 24 hours of completion.

      • POP Report

  • Splash / Content / Filler Bundles
    • The Filler bundle Hourly POP report was rebuilt to be highly reliable, including a more comprehensive status page and a link to collect the completed report within 24 hours after the completion of the report generation.

      • Filler Bundle POP Report

Fixed

Splash

  • Splash / Assets / Sites

    • Fixed a bug that led to incorrect search results when using the 'Face Media' and 'Frame Type' filters in the Splash>Assets>Sites section.
  • Splash / Scheduling / Campaigns
    • Fixed a bug preventing persisting changes when editing the Scheduling Groups filter.

Splash Player

  • Fixed a bug preventing the proper synchronization of Forward and Store files.

Improved

POST App

  • Rebranding for POST App with Broadsign logo and blue colors.
  • Documentation: POST App.

    • POST App

  • Able to log in with a user that has special characters in the password.

Splash

  • Splash / Assets / Digital Faces
    • Reduced the restrictions when linking a loop template to a digital face.

      • Digital Faces

Splash Player

The Player Configuration Model and Cloud Extender Configuration Model drop-downs are now alphabetically sorted.

Player Configuration Model

Configuration Model

Fixed

POST App

  • Distance should now be visible for all faces in the work order list section.

    • Distances

  • Only faces displayed in the work order list section are visible on the map.

    • Faces

  • The navigation bar should now be visible when the light mode is activated on iOS devices.

Splash Player

  • Zip Packages are now working properly when scheduled for Emergency Message and Takeovers.
  • We added the missing extra logging to trace programmatic content requests in the player logs.
  • A major bug fix preventing to properly synchronize Forward and Store content was fixed.