Lavanya Cherakuthota

Patchday – 01.2024: 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 Collection 6.1.1.48

LAGO Collection 5.23.1.297

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

09.2023: 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 Collection 5.23.1.124

LAGO Collection 5.22.1.167

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

10.2022: 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 5.19.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.18.1

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

LAGO 5.19 is available now!

Dear customers,

Our third feature release of 2022, LAGO 5.19, is available as of today. Since our last release, we’ve added some very useful new features to LAGO: a new option is now available at the document workflow level that enables automatic creation of Archive PDFs for any given checkpoint. Additionally, we’ve made enhancements to our Automat PDF exports than now enable you to hide placeholders from any level (article/element/document/project) and replace with a blank or predefined value.

This and much more is available with the latest version LAGO 5.19–have a look at our release notes for details.

Should you have any questions about our release LAGO 5.19, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Best regards
Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Create Archive-PDF using the Workflow
  It is now possible to create automat jobs for the creation of archive PDF by the LAGO Workflow. A new workflow status action is now available that needs to be added to the corresponding workflow status. If all documents of a project reach a status that has the new workflow action configured, the automat jobs for archive PDF will be created. Please note that this feature requires the module “LAGO Archive”
• Description for Shops
  A new field “Description” has been added to shop folders. This field can contain an unlimited amount of text. The content of the field can be added or changed within LAGO PIM, LAGO Explorer and by using the LAGO Standard Import. The XML Export will export the content of the field together with shops.
• Article data within table headers
  Up until now it was only possible to use placeholders of the entities Project, Project Variant and Project Variant Type into the header cells of an object table. Now it is possible to also use placeholders from the entities Article, Article Property, Price, and Price Property. Placeholders will be added as context placeholders and pull the value of the flash article of the corresponding element.
• Replace placeholders within an exported PDF
  From now on you can configure which placeholders should be replaced within exported PDF files. On field level within LAGO Admin, a new flag “Hide field on export” has been added that allows to configure if a field should be hidden. Moreover, automat job settings for a PDF-Export also contain a setting to enable hiding of placeholders. Upon export, placeholders configured will be replaced with the empty placeholder value, configured in the central configuration.

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

LAGO 5.17 is available now!

We believe in mutual respect.
We embrace diversity.
We believe in world peace.

Stop the war!

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Synchronize local text components by language
  Keeping the content of local text components for the same language in sync has always been a challenge in case you are maintaining text components for multiple variants. An example would be having a local component for the United States and Canada or for Peru and Chile. If both components should have the same content, it was necessary to change both components.
  With LAGO 5.17 a new way of synchronizing the content of local text components is now available in case they’re both based on the same language. This requires a setup of language in LAGO Admin, an assignment of the languages to the variant types and the activation of the feature in the central configuration. Once a user saves a local component it will then be possible to synchronize the content to all components that are based on the same language.
• Better control over asset priority in LAGO Layout
  New features have been implemented into LAGO Layout to allow better control over the priority of assets. These features require that element asset assignments including an assignment order are created (either in LAGO Explorer or by an upstream system using the LAGO API).
  Element layouts have been enhanced with two additional options, the first one being the possibility to only use element asset assignments when creating asset components. These are then being placed according to their assignment order. If you are using the functionality to stack components on top of each other, you can now control whether the asset with the highest priority should be placed first (lowest) or last (highest).
  In case the assignment order is adjusted, a new document check is available to identify differences between the order of the assigned assets and the order of the placed components within the document (based on their z-order). To verify these differences, it is now also possible to filter inside the “asset assignment” palette to only show element asset assignments.
• Manage article element assignment in LAGO PIM
  LAGO PIM now offers the possibility of managing article element assignments. The creation of assignments is done in two steps. The first step is the selection of articles and a new function to copy them into a clipboard for assignment creation. Afterwards one or multiple elements can be selected to paste the assignments. This new function allows you to assign multiple articles to multiple elements in one step for the first time.
• New functions in LAGO Scripting
  New functions for fields of the data type “date” have been added to LAGO Scripting. It is now possible to extract the year, month, or day of a date field to be used for further purposes. An example is to use the fields “Valid From” and “Valid To” on project level and only show the day and week of them within a placeholder.

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

LAGO 5.16 is available now!

Dear customers,

As 2021 is drawing to a close and the holidays are just around the corner, let's take the positive things from this year and carry them forward into next year.

For example, we have all learned how important it is to stick together and lookout for each other, and we will continue on a positive path forward supporting all of your needs. We used the last three months to provide additional improvements to all LAGO apps, LAGO Admin, LAGO Pict and LAGO PIM, among others.

It is now possible to enable or disable elements without losing support for multiple selections and multi-variant productions. Also, document variants can now be easily updated via the document list, and calculators can now be triggered via import, which significantly speeds up these processes.

Please review our release notes for all other improvements and enhancements being delivered in version LAGO 5.16 as of today.

I wish you and your families a safe and happy holiday season, and we at Comosoft look forward to seeing you again in good health in 2022.

Best regards

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Core:
  Cross project range settings (scoping) for elements and articles:
  At the element and article level, it is possible to define new key fields to support the matching of elements and articles across projects. New entries in the Central Configuration allow the import of these fields for articles and elements via the standard import.

  With these settings, all fields and properties for articles and elements are handled via the new key. This affects all types of set ranges on fields and properties.

  For this purpose, the scoping options for article, price and element fields and properties have been extended. Identical ranges now exist everywhere: Variant, Global, Project, Variant types, Campaigns and Variant type/Campaign, if the above-mentioned central configuration entry is set. This makes it possible, among other things, to maintain data across projects even at element level. A prerequisite for this functionality is that your elements are created via import.

  Localization of property names:

  XML localization is now available for article types in LAGO Admin. XML localizations allow the maintenance of additional designations, respectively translations per language, which are configurable on the article property assignment level. Generally, XML localizations are inherited in article type hierarchies, but the configuration of deviating values on lower levels of the hierarchies is made possible by this. For the configuration there is a new area "XML Localization" in LAGO Admin, where values for all configured languages could be entered.

  In the XML export, the configured translations can be output, provided that the checkbox "Translations of property types" is activated in the category settings. In the XML file, the translations are listed in the element.

  Channel assignment of properties at all levels of the article type hierarchy:

  LAGO Admin allows mapping of property types to channels at the article type level. The assignment at upper levels of the hierarchy inherits to the lower levels but can be configured differently again at any lower level.

• LAGO Admin:
  History:
  In Admin it is now possible to log the changes of user settings. If user data, user role assignments, assignments to workgroups and user to project type assignments, user variant types or cluster assignments are changed, these can be called up via the "Show History" button. A new window will appear with a corresponding display of the changes. Various options allow filtering by type and timeframe of the changes.

  Variant groups:

  It is now possible to set up several parallel variant group structures with validity dates that are used to display matching variant groups for articles, elements, and documents according to the validity date of a project.

  Channels:

  In LAGO Admin, the new node "Channels" has been introduced under "Products and Projects". Creation, editing and deletion of channels are possible. In addition, channel properties can be created, edited, deleted and sorted here.

• LAGO PIM:
  Elements:
  LAGO PIM allows to activate and deactivate elements. New buttons are available in the toolbar for this purpose. Activation and deactivation support multi selection and multi variant selection. When activating, there is also the option of unplacing components. The buttons can be shown and hidden via the workspace configuration.

  Document variants:

  A new button to update document variants has been added to the toolbar of the document list in LAGO PIM.

  If one or multiple documents of a variant are selected, the button is active. When the button is pressed, a dialog with options is displayed, which allow to control the details of the action.

• LAGO Transfer:
  Execution of calculator scripts:
  If calculators are configured in the LAGO system, their execution can be triggered through an import. Previously, the calculators of all elements and articles were updated for alle articles and elements.

  The update procedure has been adapted so that it now only performs a re calculation for the elements and articles actually changed by the import. This significantly speeds up the processing of imports that use this function.

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

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.

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

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).

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

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

by Lavanya Cherakuthota

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

by Lavanya Cherakuthota