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LAGO 5.15 is available now!

Dear customers,

With LAGO 5.15 we are pleased to provide the third release in the year 2021.
We have been working hard on your behalf in the last three months to extend LAGO functionally in many areas.
In addition to many useful new functions, such as the expansion of the quick search in LAGO Whiteboard, and new planning options in LAGO PIM, we have also increased our development priorities to support your LAGO user communities that continue working from remote locations.
Our web application - LAGO PIM - now offers many extensions that make it possible to work efficiently from any location. We have also increased IT security, making multi-factor authentication easier to configure.

Please plan to join us on September 29 for our LAGO 5.15 release webinar. An invitation will be sent soon with a complete agenda. Paul Kawano is looking forward to present the latest feature in LAGO 5.15.

Best regards from Hamburg

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• LAGO Whiteboard:
  The assignment mode of LAGO Whiteboard has been enhanced to allow a quick search across all existing projects. Previously a user had to select a dedicated source project. With the new possibilities in the search, it is now possible to see all projects an article or element is assigned to.In addition, it is now also possible to edit user fields for raster fields within the page layout mode.
• LAGO PIM:
  New functions for planning projects and their content have been added to LAGO PIM.You will now be able to access component templates and create components from existing elements. The functionality is based on the already existing one from LAGO Whiteboard. However, LAGO PIM offers more detailed settings when creating components.In addition, you can now pickup elements from other projects by using the same search tools that were already present in the assignment mode of LAGO Whiteboard. This means you can either use a quick search or existing search folders when browsing through existing project and element data.Finally, the functionality to update document variants has been added to LAGO PIM to allow copying of a document variant into multiple target variants or synchronizing data among already existing document variants.
• LAGO Admin:
  The maintenance of article types and their hierarchy has received new detailed settings for the display of property types as well as their output using the XML-Export. The existing functionality to add a localized name for a property type is now also possible for the assignment of a property type to an article type. This allows to have different names for a property type for every assignment to an article type.In addition, you can now assign channels to property types or the assignment of a property type to an article type. By adding channel assignments to an XML-Export configuration, only article properties where the channel assignment matches the assignments of the configuration will be exported.Finally, LAGO Admin now allows you to configure a threshold in days, after which a user will automatically be marked as inactive in case it hasn’t logged in during that time. To ensure that users, such as an LFS User, are not automatically locked, you can also define users in LAGO admin to be system users.

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LAGO 5.14 is available now!

Dear customers,

It’s hard to believe 3 months have passed so fast. Comosoft has used the time to add more useful functionalities to LAGO. With LAGO 5.14, we provided new innovations that support your workflows even better.

We have once again added impressive functions to LAGO Proof, LAGO PIM, LAGO DAM, LAGO Whiteboard, as well as the much appreciated LAGO Explorer, which will make your advertising material production even faster and, above all, more secure.

For example, you now have the option to set elements to Proof Complete in LAGO Proof. Checked elements receive a "check symbol" in the proof view and can be easily distinguished from "non-checked elements" by a colored marking.
With this feature you can perform your correction process even faster and do not run the risk of overlooking unfinished corrections.
This is just one of the new features coming with LAGO 5.14, so take the time to read our release notes and learn all about our new LAGO 5.14 release.

Of course, we look forward to welcoming you to our LAGO 5.14 release webinar. Here you will have the opportunity to address questions regarding the new features to us.

The invitation to the webinar will be sent to you shortly.

Greetings from Hamburg, stay healthy and see you at the Release 5.14 Webinar.

Best regards

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Enhancements to LAGO Proof
  LAGO Proof now offers a new way to verify documents via your correction/proofing workflow. This new feature set enables the selection of an element in Proof for the purpose of marking it as “checked” or “not checked” via a new button in the toolbar. A visual indicator is also made available in Proof so that a user can quickly see which elements have been checked or not. If a user attempts to “check” (approve) an element that has unresolved correction marks, a message dialog will communicate to the user that the element cannot be moved to the “checked” status due to unresolved correction marks. All visual indicators in Proof are toggled ON/OFF via a button in the toolbar. All new buttons are configurable in workspaces to tailor the UI to each user.Further additions to LAGO Proof include the ability to: 1. Copy correction marks to one or to multiple elements simultaneously.2. Create correction marks for multiple elements at the same time.3. Display correction mark details as tooltips on the proof canvas. 4. Easily move pages forward and backwards through the LAGO workflow via a new button in the toolbar. 5. Configure presets for correction marks. These presets include pre-defined texts for the correction name and description plus the ability to define whether a correction mark should be global, local, a document correction, or an element correction. 6. Automatically advance a document workflow step in the event that no open correction marks exist. Additionally, LAGO Explorer now offers two new document check runs that can verify whether a document contains open correction marks and whether all elements of that document have been marked as “checked”.
  Make sure to participate in our release webinar to see all the LAGO Proof enhancements in greater detail!
• New functions within Element Layouts
  The core functionality to automatically pre-populate or build InDesign documents within LAGO has been enhanced with two additional features.First, it is now possible to create assets with text captions via element layouts. This requires the text captions to be stored within an asset property and a component template that contains at least one empty image frame plus a frame for the text caption. To support this feature, it is possible to assign the following element layout configuration, “create and arrange for matching assets”, to layout objects.The second new feature enables users to create a component for multiple articles based on placement rule conditions. The placement rules can be based on the article, article property, price, or price property values. The option for evaluation is configurable and set in the element layout configuration. When placement rule conditions are found to be true, a component is created for each distinct article. An example use case for this feature would be an element that has 5 articles assigned and among those 5 articles, 2 different retail prices exist, resulting in two price tags needing to be placed on the document.
• New features in LAGO PIM, LAGO DAM and LAGO Whiteboard
  LAGO PIM has been enhanced with additional features, including the ability to edit prices or change the sorting of article to element assignments.LAGO DAM now supports the ability to define a threshold limit for the number of comma separated search entries for searching with a new entry in the central configuration. If the limit is exceeded, a message will be displayed, and the number of search results will be truncated to the defined maximum. Additionally, we support the ability to put search results directly into a shopping cart via a button.LAGO Whiteboard supports the assignment of “Grids” to working pages while working in Page layout mode.
• History for user account changes in LAGO Admin
  The LAGO history module has been enhanced to support the tracking of user account changes. This includes the user account itself, as well as the assignment of roles, changes to existing user roles, and assignments to workgroups. A new History view in LAGO Admin enables these user account changes to be seen.
• API enhancements
  The LAGO API now offers further data manipulation functionality, such as the asset assignment order of articles and elements, the possibility to logically delete an asset, as well as, assigning assets to articles using property tokens and values.
• LAGO Import enhancement
  In addition, the LAGO standard import can now import external keys for articles, elements, and prices, which enables identifying these objects using the API (version 3).

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Patchday Sprint 56 – 05.2021: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.12.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.11.1

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Patchday Sprint 55 – 04.2021: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.12.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.11.1

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LAGO 5.11 is available now!

Dear customers,

The holiday season is knocking at the door and 2020 is finally coming to an end. The entire Comosoft team wishes you and your families a happy and healthy new year.

The year 2020 has been more challenging than ever for all of us. As a result of the all-dominant global pandemic and the associated reorientations in the world of remote working, there were also new technical challenges to be mastered.

We have also been working hard to transition Adobe’s discontinuation of Flash applications as of December 31, 2020, that will no longer be supported by any operating system or browser as of January 1, 2021.

We are more than happy to announce LAGO 5.11 is available as a "Flash-free" version that is ready for production as of December 16, 2020. LAGO 5.11 replaces all former LAGO Flash-based applications with HTML5 technology and thus guarantees operation after December 31, 2020.

In addition, we have also expanded the range of functions in LAGO in 5.11! It is now possible to assign master pages to documents in LAGO Whiteboard;

and furthermore, we have integrated the LAGO apps “Merch Planning” and “Plan” into LAGO PIM.

These are just two examples of what's new in LAGO. To see the full range of new features in LAGO 5.11, please read the release notes below.

P.S.: We have a safe and secure solution through an Adobe partner that will extend LAGO Flash applications through May 31, 2021, until you are ready to upgrade to LAGO5.

As always, we are available to answer questions about LAGO 5.11 and look forward to your call.

We wish you relaxed holidays and a healthy start to the year 2021.

Greetings from Hamburg

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Whiteboard
  LAGO Whiteboard now offers the ability to assign master pages to documents without having to use LAGO Layout (InDesign). To support this feature, a new bridge group called “Master Pages" has been introduced in the Page Layout mode of LAGO Whiteboard. Master pages that have been defined in the document template are displayed there to enable assignment to document pages. This feature streamlines the planning workflow in the LAGO Whiteboard since the assignment of master pages was previously only possible using LAGO Layout (InDesign).Assigned assets displayed in raster fields can now be configured to a specific size format. This setting enables more assets to be displayed in larger raster fields and more configurability options in LAGO Whiteboard to determine how content is being displayed.
• PIM & Whiteboard
  In LAGO PIM, it is now possible to open one or more selected documents directly in LAGO Whiteboard with a single click by using a new button called "Add documents to layout view". This replaces functionality that was previously available in LAGO Plan.
• PIM
  LAGO PIM has been enhanced significantly and replaces the Flash applications “LAGO MerchpPlanning” and “LAGO Plan”. Here are some highlights:Users now have the ability to create, edit, and delete article search folders. With appropriate permissions, article search folders can also be deemed as “public” search folders making them available to all users.If article types are assigned to workgroups, LAGO PIM now takes this setup into account offering the ability to control the visibility and editing rights of articles of the specified article type.

  Article editing is now complete in LAGO PIM. Articles, as well as Prices and Properties, can be created, edited, and deleted.

  Text components of Elements can now be edited in a separate browser window within LAGO PIM. Pressing a new button called "Edit component text in text editor" will open up the editor in a secondary browser window. The editor includes a placeholder tree that can be switched On and Off, switchable placeholder highlights, LAGO table insertion, and much more.

  The visibility of LAGO PIM buttons and Article fields can now be configured through Workspace configuration in LAGO Admin.

• Admin Extend
  Import/Export Administration (including Task definition) has been moved from the LAGO Transfer app to LAGO Admin Extend.Standard export has also been moved to LAGO Admin Extend. The Export wizard guides you through all necessary settings in five steps.Article Type editing, is now offered in LAGO Admin Extend. This includes creating, editing, or deleting Article Types (and their associated fields), as well as Article Properties, Prices and Price Properties.

  Project Variant Type configuration is now available in LAGO Admin Extend under Products & Projects -> Project Variants. From here, Variant fields and settings can be created, edited, or deleted.

  A new button called "Recalculate FPOs and previews" has been added to LAGO Admin Extend. This button becomes active when an Asset Type is selected. Once pressed, users can choose between the options "Recalculate FPOs", "Recalculate Previews" or "Recalculate FPOs and Previews". The corresponding jobs are generated and are processed by LAGO Pict. This feature is useful when the asset type definition has been modified.

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Patchday Sprint 50 – 12.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.10.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.9.1

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Patchday Sprint 49 – 11.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

Patchday Sprint 49 – 11.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.10.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.9.1

by comosoft GmbH

LAGO 5.10 is available now!

Dear customers,

As we all know the end of Adobe Flash Player is nearing the end as of December 31, 2020. In 2017, Adobe announced to discontinue Flash support, and there is no question this is urgently needed, because Flash has proven to be less and less an innovative standard and more of a security risk.

The alternative to Flash, HTML5 technology brings a more robust and safer security backbone. Comosoft has been working for months to transition all LAGO web-based applications from Flash to the HTML5 standard, and we are targeting a Flash-free LAGO version with the next release in December 2020. But until then, there is still some work to be done and Comosoft is working hard to transition some remaining LAGO applications still running on Flash while upgrading customers to newer LAGO versions.

With the release of LAGO 5.10, we already offer a large package of Flash free applications. For example, we have implemented some great new features in LAGO PIM to support your production workflows and give you the ability to generate reports at the project and project type level. We have also improved our powerful LAGO Whiteboard so that, for example, asset assignments can be created for higher-level elements and articles.

For enhanced security, LAGO Layout now supports single sign on and multi-factor authentication. Please review our latest Release Notes to learn about all the enhancements and improvements in LAGO 5.10.

Stay healthy and many greetings from the Comosoft team.

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Extension of HTML5 support and functionality in LAGO PIM
  LAGO PIM now provides additional “legacy” functionalities in HTML5. In addition to new shop functions and the display of search folders, it is now possible to create, edit, and delete articles and elements. LAGO Reports at the project and project type level are now available as well.
• New functionality in LAGO Whiteboard
  LAGO Whiteboard's Product Data mode now features the ability to create asset assignments (for articles and elements) as well as new elements for empty raster fields, providing more control without having to change the mode or app. Pickup View now offers increased flexibility through the use of drag & drop for entire pages. Whiteboard now displays previews and standard images in raster fields making it even more intuitive while optimizing workflows.
• Enhanced security through MFA
  LAGO Layout now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) via SAML.
• Optimization of LAGO DAM
  New features are now available, such as, the display of asset orders in the search view and the export of XLSX files from the asset light table's list view.
• Updating asset assignments via Photoshop/Bridge Info Panel
  In the past, the Photoshop/Bridge Info Panel supported asset assignments to articles and elements for assets that were not in the LAGO system yet. An improvement has been made and now asset assignments can be updated, extended, and deleted by changing the metadata then reimported thru asset hot folder or checkout/check-in action via the Photoshop plugin. .

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Patchday Sprint 48 - 10.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.9.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.8.1

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Patchday Sprint 46 - 08.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.9.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.8.1

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