Release Notes - 2019

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that causes user-selected Day Part to not be taken into account when calculating the screen contribution.
• Fixed a failure when updating proposals with a discount via API.

Added

• We added Category Exclusion to help you exclude screens when building a proposal, see Set Up Category Exclusions.
  • Administrators can upload a CSV creating or updating the categories and the criteria associated with them.
  • When a package with Category Exclusion is selected, only other packages with the same Category Exclusion can be further selected.
  • Category Exclusion takes precedence over criterion filters.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that prevents de-activated screens from Broadsign Control to be removed from Broadsign Direct.

Fixed

• Fixed a UI issue that grid selection must be clicked twice in Salesforce embedded view.
• Fixed an issue that causes some Campaigns created in Broadsign Control to not get imported to Broadsign Direct properly.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that causes the contact form incorrectly appears on embedded proposals
• Fixed a display issue that selecting additional Criteria Pills removes the previously selected one from UI.

Added

• Synchronized packages can now be booked as synchronized Campaign in Broadsign Control. See Synchronizing Screens in a Package.

Improved

• Added detailed error messages when the Audience Data import fails. See Import Audience Data.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue caused by an incomplete import from Broadsign Control.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that causes the saturation URL returned to be incorrect.

Fixed

• The price calculated in the summary cart will take into account the Proposal Item start and end time.
• Fixed a bug that causes the suggested price to be wrong when multiple rate card multipliers are present.

Added

• Now you can limit the maximum saturation in the Domain Settings page (see Digital Inventory Section)
• New API endpoint to fetch the Playout details of a Proposal Item.

Improved

• Improved the impression recalculation performance when updating Proposal Items.
• Control Display Unit having only one Frame sellable no longer gets the Display Unit name prepended.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that causes Goal Seek results to be incorrect when a Screen has multiple audience schedules and the Proposal Item does not have a default start and end time.

Added

• We added Proposal Amendment so that as a Broadsign Direct Admin, you can make changes to Proposal items that are already held, submitted, booked or live (static proposal items). Broadsign Direct Admins can amend Frequency, Share of Voice, and Takeover type of buys for digital proposal items (campaign), see Amend Proposal Items. The following actions are available:
  • Add or remove screens or faces (exclude packages).
  • Change the start date and flight duration of a digital proposal item
  • Extend or reduce the flight duration of a static proposal item (Package Flight Duration rules still apply).

Improved

• The selection of screen is automatically narrowed down when specifying Criteria, see Search Screens by Criteria.

Fixed

• Fixed the display of long Proposal Item names, they are not cut into different lines anymore.

Improved

• The goal impressions and budget feature will take audience-schedule information into account.
• Improved audience CSV export performance.

Fixed

• Fixed an API error caused by passing status to the proposal search end-point.

Added

• The enhanced Availability Check workflow is available now! See Availability Check Feature.
  • Proposal Items for a blocking proposal are displayed in a separate page with additional details.
  • The goal reachability is displayed when checking the availability of Proposal Items.
  • Download a CSV file for Available, Partially available, or Unavailable screens details.
• We improved the Fill Rate details by breaking it down to each Proposal Item. Click the Fill Rate percentage of a screen to display the list of Proposal Items. See Fill Rate Column.
• Now only Campaigns targeting whitelisted screens will be imported from Broadsign Control. See Add the Display Unit Folder to the Allow List.
• You can amend the proposal item price now.
• View the proposals created only by the logged in user by clicking “Show only my proposals”.

Changed

• Entered audience data is no longer automatically rounded.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that causes PDF downloads to not finish properly.
• Fixed that the CSV Export is not clickable for inventory.
• Fixed an issue where the adjustment for a cloned Proposal is not correctly applied.